locken

See also: Locken

English

Alternative forms

• lucken

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɒkən/, /lɒkn̩/

Verb

locken

1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) past participle of lock

Adjective

locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
2. (Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands or toes).

   locken fingers

3. (Scotland, Northern England) Stingy, tight-fisted.

   The locken hands do not give much.

4. (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

• Conkle, enlock

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔkn̩], [ˈlɔkŋ̩]
• Hyphenation: lo‧cken

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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

1. (transitive) to lure, entice
2. (transitive) to tempt
3. (transitive, impersonal) to be lured

Synonyms

• anködern, anlocken, anziehen, fortlocken, heranlocken, heranrufen, herauslocken, herbeilocken, herlocken, hervorlocken, hineinlocken, ködern, reizen, rufen, weglocken

Derived terms

• Lockvogel
• verlocken

Related terms

• lügen

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German lochōn, from Locke (“curl”).

Verb

1. (transitive) to curl sth
2. (reflexive) to curl

Synonyms

• kräuseln, kringeln, ringeln, wellen

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch loccon, from Proto-Germanic *lukkōną.

Verb

locken

1. to lure

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: lokken
• Limburgish: lókke

Further reading

• “locken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “locken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Swedish

Noun

locken

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of lock
2. (deprecated template usage) definite plural of lock