Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rook
Participle: rooked
Gerund: rooking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rook |
| you | rook |
| he;she;it | rooks |
| we | rook |
| you | rook |
| they | rook |
Perfect
| I | have rooked |
| you | have rooked |
| he;she;it | has rooked |
| we | have rooked |
| you | have rooked |
| they | have rooked |
Past
| I | rooked |
| you | rooked |
| he;she;it | rooked |
| we | rooked |
| you | rooked |
| they | rooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had rooked |
| you | had rooked |
| he;she;it | had rooked |
| we | had rooked |
| you | had rooked |
| they | had rooked |
Future
| I | will rook |
| you | will rook |
| he;she;it | will rook |
| we | will rook |
| you | will rook |
| they | will rook |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rooked |
| you | will have rooked |
| he;she;it | will have rooked |
| we | will have rooked |
| you | will have rooked |
| they | will have rooked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rook |
| you | rook |
| he;she;it | rook |
| we | rook |
| you | rook |
| they | rook |
Perfect
| I | have rooked |
| you | have rooked |
| he;she;it | have rooked |
| we | have rooked |
| you | have rooked |
| they | have rooked |
Imperfect
| I | rooked |
| you | rooked |
| he;she;it | rooked |
| we | rooked |
| you | rooked |
| they | rooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had rooked |
| you | had rooked |
| he;she;it | had rooked |
| we | had rooked |
| you | had rooked |
| they | had rooked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rook |
| you | would rook |
| he;she;it | would rook |
| we | would rook |
| you | would rook |
| they | would rook |
Perfect
| I | would have rooked |
| you | would have rooked |
| he;she;it | would have rooked |
| we | would have rooked |
| you | would have rooked |
| they | would have rooked |
Imperative
| you | rook |
| we | Let's rook |
| you | rook |
Verbs conjugated like 'rook'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rook'
book,
brook,
cook,
crook,
dook,
fook,
hook,
jook,
look,
rock,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "European crow," O.E. hroc, from P.Gmc. *khrokaz (cf. O.N. hrokr, M.Du. roec, M.Swed. roka, O.H.G. hruoh), possibly imitative of its raucous voice. Used as a disparaging term for persons since at least 1508, and extended by 1577 to mean "a cheat," especially at cards or dice. The verb "to defraud by cheating" (originally especially in a game) is first attested 1590. Rookery "colony of rooks" is from 1725.
2. * Inherited from Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hrōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōk, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax, “crow”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).
3. * (parson): Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.
Sample Sentences
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They rook one shockingly at these places. [1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:]
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Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there. [1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 311:]