kool
Deliberate misspelling of cool.
Adjective
- Deliberate misspelling of cool.
Forms
Derived
Verb
- To 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:
- 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,...
- “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...
Origin
Back slang for look.