ingle-nook Orig. Sc.
[f. ingle n.1]
The nook or corner beside the ‘ingle’; chimney-corner.
| a 1774 Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 6 (Jam.) The ingle-nook supplies the simmer fields. 1816 Scott Old Mort. iv, I'll begin with that sulky blue-bonnet in the ingle-nook. 1844 Disraeli Coningsby iii. i, There was a comfortable enough looking kitchen; but the ingle nook was full of smokers. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, ‘Old Feyther Taft’..had some time ago gone back to his ingle-nook. |