subs. (colloquial).—A snug corner; a place of hiding.

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  1857.  Old Song, ‘The Leary Man’ [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 156].

        Then go to St. Giles’s rookery,
And live up some strange NOOKERY,
Of no use domestic cookery,
        To be a Leary Man.

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