beeks

[beek]

Origin

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fireplace, stove, or bonfire.

(of wood) to season by exposure to heat.

noun

Obsolete. the act of basking or warming by a fire.

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Beeks is always a great word to know.

So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1200–50; Middle English beken, akin to bake (perhaps < Germanic *bōkjan)

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beek

"to bask in the warmth" of something, early 13c., a northern and Scottish word of unknown origin.

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