Tuesday, February 23, 2010

My Word for the Day: Nooks

A headline in the New York Times says:

New York's Nooks are a Challenge to Census Takers

Oh, Nooks. Turns out they are talking about "nook" as the companion of "cranny," though extended here to include a 900-apartment, 40-story tower block (Ma-ma mia...). Silly me. I thought they meant Nooks:
Nooks is something great, or a cool black person, who really does not have to be completely black but just dark in skin. Who acts him self, doesn't follow trends or anything. Nooks is pronoucned like Books but with an N and not like Nukes.
That's Urban Dictionary definition #4. Query, does the census overlook them also?

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