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kool
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English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
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Adjective
kool (comparative kooler, superlative koolest)
Usage notes
Phonemic spelling, generally used in commercial names, like Kool Aid.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Back slang for look.
Alternative forms
Verb
kool (third-person singular simple present kools, present participle kooling, simple past and past participle kooled)
- (obsolete, costermongers) To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
- c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 161:
- Now kool my downy kicksies—the style for me, / Built on a plan werry naughty,
- 1903 October, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, quoting Hogg, Quintin, “Quintin Hogg and the London Polytechnic”, in Missionary Review of the World, volume 26, number 16, page 734:
- We had not been engaged in our reading very long when at the far end of the arch I noticed a twinkling light. "Kool esclop!" shouted one of the boys, at the same moment doucing the glim and bolting with his companion, leaving me in the dark with my upset beer bottle and my douced candle, forming a spectacle which seemed to arouse suspicion on the part of our friend the policeman, whose light it was that had appeared in the distance.
- 2014 October 18, “Golborne Road, Miscellaneous Memories”, in WordPress, retrieved 6 June 2017:
- “Kool retfa the posh” he’d call to Mum, “I’m going to ekat the yenom to the kaynab” Somewhere Dad had learnt Backslang and this was the preferred medium of communication between him and Mum when there were customers in the shop. What he had just said was, “Look after the shop, I’m taking the money to the bank”
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:look
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch kool, from Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *kōl, *kōla, from Latin caulis.
Noun
kool (plural kole, diminutive kooltjie)
Derived terms
- koolakker
- koolblaar
- koolbredie
- koolkop
- koolplantjie
- koolraap
- koolsaad
- koolsop
- koolstronk
Etymology 2
From Dutch kool, from Middle Dutch cole, from Old Dutch *kol, *kolo, from Proto-Germanic *kulą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷol-, from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).
Noun
kool (plural kole, diminutive kooltjie)
- koolaanpaksel
- koolaanslag
- koolaar
- koolafval
- koolbak
- koolbedding
- koolborsel
- kooldamp
- kooldatering
- kooldeurslag
- kooldraad
- kooldruk
- kooldrukpapier
- koolelektrode
- koolgruis
- koolhidraat
- koolhoop
- koolkamer
- koolklop
- koollaag
- koollaaier
- koolloos
- koolmyn
- koolokside
- kooloksied
- koolpapier
- koolpuin
- koolpunt
- koolroet
- Koolsak
- koolsif
- koolskop
- koolspits
- koolstof
- koolstofdioksied
- koolstofhoudend
- koolstofmonokside
- koolstofmonoksied
- koolstofverbinding
- koolstoof
- koolswart
- koolteer
- kooltrok
- koolvalslandmeter
- koolvesel
- koolvis
- koolvorming
- koolvuur
- koolwa
- koolwaterstof
- koolwaterstofgas
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Cornish
Noun
kool
- hard mutation of gool
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *kōl, *kōla, from Latin caulis.
Noun
kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)
- a cabbage, plant of genus Brassica
- Hypernym: kruisbloem
- (particularly) the edible leaves of a Brassica
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch cole, from Old Dutch *kol, *kolo, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷol-, from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).
May originate from a neuter plurale tantum that was reanalysed as a feminine singular; compare Old Norse kol. Cognate with West Frisian koal, German Kohle, English coal, Danish kul.
Noun
kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)
Synonyms
- (carbon): koolstof
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Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German schôle.
Pronunciation
Noun
kool (genitive kooli, partitive kooli)
Declension
Derived terms
Compound words
Further reading
- “kool”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “kool”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- kool in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
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Tlingit
Noun
kool (see inflected forms below)
Inflection
Yucatec Maya
Pronunciation
Verb
kool (transitive)
Noun
kool (plural kooloʼob)
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