rook
Plural: rooks
Noun
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- A parson.
- A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- A castle or other fortification.
- A rookie.
- mist; fog; roke
Verb
Verb Forms: rooked, rooking, rooks
- To cheat or swindle someone, typically out of money.
- deprive of by deceit
- To cheat or swindle.
- To squat; to ruck.
- Pronunciation spelling of look, mimicking Asian speech.
Examples
- My opponent tried to ROOK me with a phony word, but I challenged it successfully.
Origin / Etymology
* 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”).
* (parson): Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.
Synonyms
bunco, castle, con, Corvus frugilegus, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize, Scandaroon, Spanish athlete, bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, bunco-steerer, charlatan, cheat, cheater, chiseler, cogger, cony-catcher, cozener, crammer, deceiver, deceptor, defrauder, do, dupe, fabricator, fabulist, falser, finagler, fleecer, fortress, fraud, fraudmeister, fraudster, gabber, grifter, guiler, gull, have, humbug, landshark, liar, losenger, mocker, pickpenny, pseudologist, rook, scammer, scamp, schemester, shammer, sharper, slicker, spieler, swike, swindler, trapan, treacher, trepan, trick, trickster, trucker, wernard
Scrabble Score: 8
rook: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrook: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rook: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary