Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having many nooks and corners; having a coast indented with gulfs, bays, friths, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Obs. or Prov. Eng. Full of nooks, angles, or corners.
Examples
“The southeastern portion of the island of Newfoundland, as may be seen by a glance at the map, may be well described by that expressive epithet of "nook-shotten," which in Shakspeare is applied to the mother-island of which it is a dependent.”
“The provinces, to the very farthest nook of these "nook-shotten" islands, react upon London as powerfully as London acts upon _them_; so that no counterpoise is required with us, as in France it is, to any inordinate influence at the centre.”
“Hellas -- as a 'nook-shotten' [14] land, nautically accessible and laid down in seas that were studded with islands systematically adjusted to the continental circumstances, whilst internally her mountainous structure had split up almost the whole of her territory into separate chambers or wards, predetermining from the first that galaxy of little republics into which her splintered community threw itself by means of the strong mutual repulsion derived originally from battlements of hills, and, secondarily, from the existing state of the military art.”
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EN - Anglish
The Purist Dictionary.
Madeupical or revitalized Old English forms for words of non-Germanic origin. For all of these terms exists a normal English equivalent beginning with "a" (e.g....aitrow, ameetend, angbreast, Anglonish, assgang, atbraidingly, atterloathe, at-wonder, atyield, awendbere, bear out, beebane and 217 more...
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It's Complicated
Words about complication, complexity.
nookshotten, finicky, challenging, intricate, complex, complication, involved, elaborate, labyrinthine, involute, sophisticated, tangled and 21 more...
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sionnach I am surprised, nay shocked, that the immortal phrase of excoriation "nook-shotten Norwegians" has not yet made it onto this page. Better late than never.
Here is the link: maunderings of nook-shotten Norwegians
The phrase is taken from the shriek of execration that constituted the press reaction to the premiere of Ibsen's "Ghosts" in London.
See also the English press reaction to Ibsen's "Ghosts" Oct 11, 2012