kool

K5O1O1L1

verb

To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

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Meanings

kool1

adjectivekool (comparative kooler, superlative koolest)

comparative kooler · superlative koolest

  1. deliberatemisspellingslangDeliberate misspelling of cool.

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

present singular third person kools · participle present kooling · participle past kooled · past kooled · alternative cool

  1. obsoletecostermongersTo look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

    Now kool my downy kicksies—the style for me, / Built on a plan werry naughty,

    c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 161
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    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.

    1903 October 28, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, quoting Hogg, Quintin, “Quintin Hogg and the London Polytechnic”, in Missionary Review of the World, volume 26, number 16, page 734

    “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”

    2014 October 18, “Golborne Road, Miscellaneous Memories”, in WordPress, retrieved 06 Jun 2017

    Synonyms: look

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proper nounKool (plural Kools)

plural Kools

  1. A surname from Dutch.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

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Origin

kool · verb

Back slang for look.

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Kool · proper noun

  1. DutchKool
  2. EnglishKool

Borrowed from Dutch Kool, shortened from Nikolaas, the Dutch form of Nicholas.

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APA

kool. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kool

MLA

“kool.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kool. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kool,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kool.

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