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neck
English
Etymology
From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian kna??is (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
neck (plural necks)
- (anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
- The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
- The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
- The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
- (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
- (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
- A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
- (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
- a neck forming the journal of a shaft
- The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
- (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
- (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
- (figuratively) A person's life.
- to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
- (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
- (folklore) shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore
- Synonyms: Neck, nicor, nokk, nix, nixie, nixy, nokken, näck, Näcken
Synonyms
- cervix, collum
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- throat
Verb
neck (third-person singular simple present necks, present participle necking, simple past and past participle necked)
- To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate
- (chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
- Synonyms: French kiss, grope, pet, smoodge, snog, snuggle, smooch
- To drink rapidly.
- Synonym: chug
- 2006, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London
- In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
- To decrease in diameter.
- 2007, John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints, page 272
- Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.
- 2007, John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints, page 272
Derived terms
- necking
Translations
Anagrams
- Enck
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kneck
English
Etymology
Uncertain.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
kneck (plural knecks)
- (Britain, nautical) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
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