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lack
English
Etymology
Middle English, cognate with or from Middle Low German lak, Middle Dutch lac (“deficiency”) and Middle Dutch laken (“blame, lack”); all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laka-, related to *lak(k)?n- (“to blame, reproach”), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh?-. See also Dutch lak (“calumny”), Old Norse lakr (“lacking”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /lak/
- (US) IPA(key): /læk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
lack (countable and uncountable, plural lacks)
- (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
- […] let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation;
- 1994, Green Day, Basket Case
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
Antonyms
- glut
- surplus
Derived terms
- lackless
Translations
Verb
lack (third-person singular simple present lacks, present participle lacking, simple past and past participle lacked)
- (transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
- My life lacks excitement.
- (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- c. 1600,, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 4,[2]
- Hamlet. What hour now?
- Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 34.10,[3]
- The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger […]
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 34.10,[3]
- (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Related terms
- lackluster
Translations
Further reading
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “lak(k)on-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 325
Anagrams
- calk, kcal
German
Pronunciation
Verb
lack
- imperative singular of lacken
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of lacken
Swedish
Etymology
From French lacre (“sealing wax”), from Portuguese laca.
Noun
lack n
- lacquer
Declension
Related terms
- klarlack
- lacknafta
- lackskor
- nagellack
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dack
English
Etymology
From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæk/
Verb
dack (third-person singular simple present dacks, present participle dacking, simple past and past participle dacked)
- (Australia, informal) To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
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