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kool (comparative kooler, superlative koolest)

  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of cool

Phonemic spelling, generally used in commercial names, like Kool Aid.

Back slang for look.

kool (third-person singular simple present kools, present participle kooling, simple past and past participle kooled)

  1. (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[1], 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[2], 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[3], retrieved 2017-06-06:
      “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”

From Dutch kool, from Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *kōl, *kōla, from Latin caulis.

kool (plural kole, diminutive kooltjie)

  1. cabbage, ​cole

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”).

kool (plural kole, diminutive kooltjie)

  1. coal
  2. carbon

kool

  1. Hard mutation of gool.

From Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *kōl, *kōla, from Latin caulis.

kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)

  1. a cabbage, plant of genus Brassica
    Hypernym: kruisbloem
  2. (particularly) the edible leaves of a Brassica

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.

kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)

  1. coal
  2. carbon

Borrowed from Middle Low German schôle.

kool (genitive kooli, partitive kooli)

  1. school
Declension of kool (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative kool koolid
accusative nom.
gen. kooli
genitive koolide
partitive kooli koolekoolisid
illative koolikoolisse koolidessekoolesse
inessive koolis koolideskooles
elative koolist koolidestkoolest
allative koolile koolidelekoolele
adessive koolil koolidelkoolel
ablative koolilt koolideltkoolelt
translative kooliks koolidekskooleks
terminative koolini koolideni
essive koolina koolidena
abessive koolita koolideta
comitative kooliga koolidega

(Compound words):

kool (see inflected forms below)

  1. navel; bellybutton

kool (transitive)

  1. to touch, to rub

kool (plural kooloʼob)

  1. field, milpa