took
Pronunciation
  • enPR: to͝ok, IPA: /tʊk/
  • (now regional) IPA: /tuːk/
Verb
  1. simple past tense of take
  2. (now, colloquial or dialectal) past participle of take#English|take
    • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v], 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 977517776 ↗, 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."



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