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took
- simple past of take
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
- (now colloquial or dialectal) past participle of take
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 259:A gracious perſon ; But yet I cannot loue him : / He might have tooke his anſwer long ago
1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Showing what became of Martin and his desperate resolve ”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1844, →OCLC, page 165:"There you're right," said Bill, "especially as it was all in paper, and he might have took care of it so very easy, by folding it up into a small parcel."
2012 November 11 [1981], “'Now that I'm married...'”, in Angela McRobbie, Trisha McCabe, editors, Feminism for Girls: An Adventure Story, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104:Linda: It was being there — if you could have took the work home I would have been alright, but being there, people watching over you, you know, you couldn't do anything wrong.
References
- ^ “Took” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 509, column 2.
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Yola
Pronunciation
Verb
took
- simple past of taake
1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:Zoo wough kisth, an wough parthet; earch man took his laave;- So we kissed and we parted, each man took his leave;
1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 108:Hea took up a lounnick, an knockt udh aar bryne.- He took up the churn-dash and knock'd out their brain.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96