My bf was doing Japanese 1 homework and used 好く for “like” because that’s what he found in his dictionary. I told him he was supposed to use 好き for the assignment, but I also hadn’t ever seen 好く before. What is this 好く nonsense? It really had a (outdated?) verb form this whole time?? 
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Yeah, 好き is just the noun form of 好く. I don’t know why the verb went out of favor. 好み and 好む are more common than 好く, but they’re not usually used in casual conversations.
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お好む is more like “to favour” something rather than to “like” something.
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It’s true that it has that nuance, though you can’t add お to the front of a verb in its plain form like that.
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I was saying 好む but thinking お好み. 
Trying to do 6 things at once.
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Strangely enough, I recently saw 好く in a piece of fiction I was reading and had the same reaction. So I guess it does get used in literature still some times.
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Wait… is okonomiyaki お好み焼き?
Favored fried food?
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Basically yes.
The idea is that you can just put whatever you like in batter and fry it on a griddle.
Obviously it mostly comes in menu form these days, but you still generally fry it yourself too.
I think its most often translated as “as you like it” though.
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I’m just going to add, from a grammar perspective, noun form verbs are basically the same as て form verbs in that they are connective and indicate concurrence or simultaneity.
So from a grammar perspective, its literally “fried as you like (prefer) it”
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