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/njuːk/ · noun
(Scotland, Northumbria) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917).
Use neuk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Neuk means (Scotland, Northumbria) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917).
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use neuk where its definition matches the intended context.
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