Hook
proper nounnouncommon in dialogue
A surname.
proper noun
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A surname.
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in Wimblington parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF4293).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in Chardstock parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST3005).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A village and civil parish near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7625).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A suburb in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1865).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A large village and civil parish in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7254).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5005).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in Timsbury parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6758).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A village in Lydiard Tregoze parish, near Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0784).
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A number of places in the United Kingdom: A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9711).
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A rural locality in South Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River.
Etymology
* As an English surname, from the noun hook. * As a Swedish surname, from hök (“hawk”). * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Hoek; compare Vanhook.
noun
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Variant of HoekAlternative form of Hoek (“member of Dutch faction”)
Forms
- plural
- Hooks