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Took

//tʊk// name, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of take form-of, past

    "When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him."

  2. 2
    past participle of take colloquial, dialectal, form-of, participle, past

    "A gracious perſon ; But yet I cannot loue him : / He might have tooke his anſwer long ago"

Etymology

Variant of Tooke.

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