locken
See also: Locken
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Verb
locken
- (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) past participle of lock
Adjective
locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken)
- (Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
- (Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands or toes).
- locken fingers
- (Scotland, Northern England) Stingy, tight-fisted.
- The locken hands do not give much.
- (Scotland, Northern England) Knit (of brows), also close-set, contracted.
- She stood there stock-still, her brows locken.
- 1852, Alex Harper, Fruits of Solitary Hours:
- A leering eye and locken brows, / And large Mongolian mouth and nose.
References
- “locken”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German locken, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German lockōn. Cognate with lügen (“to lie”), Latin laciō and Slovak lákať (“to allure”).
Verb
- (transitive) to lure, entice
- (transitive) to tempt
- (transitive, impersonal) to be lured
Synonyms
- anködern, anlocken, anziehen, fortlocken, heranlocken, heranrufen, herauslocken, herbeilocken, herlocken, hervorlocken, hineinlocken, ködern, reizen, rufen, weglocken
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German lochōn, from Locke (“curl”).
Verb
- (transitive) to curl sth
- (reflexive) to curl
Synonyms
Conjugation
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch loccon, from Proto-Germanic *lukkōną.
Verb
locken
- to lure
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “locken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “locken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Swedish
Noun
locken
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