ingle-nookn.
/ˈɪŋɡəlnʊk/, U.S. /ˈɪŋɡəlˌnʊk/, Scottish English /ˈɪŋɡəlnuk/ Originally Scottish.
The nook or corner beside the ‘ingle’; chimney-corner.
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diner1907
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 93 The ingle-nook supplies the simmer fields.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 77 I'll begin with that sulky blue-bonnet in the ingle-nook.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. iii. i. 241 There was a comfortable-looking enough kitchen; but the ingle nook was full of smokers.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 46 ‘Old Feyther Taft’..had some time ago gone back to his ingle-nook.
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