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单词 locken
释义

locken

See also: Locken

English

Alternative forms

  • lucken

Pronunciation

  • (UK) 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
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

  • Conkle, enlock

German

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle High German locken, from Old High German lockōn, from Proto-West Germanic *lokkōn, from Proto-Germanic *lukkōną. Cognate with lügen (to lie), Latin laciō and Slovak lákať (to allure).

Verb

locken (weak, third-person singular present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to lure, to entice, to tempt
    Wir locken den Feind in eine Falle.
    We're luring the enemy into a trap.
  2. (transitive, impersonal) to be lured
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • anködern, anlocken, anziehen, fortlocken, heranlocken, heranrufen, herauslocken, herbeilocken, herlocken, hervorlocken, hineinlocken, ködern, reizen, rufen, weglocken
Derived terms
  • Locken
  • lockend
  • verlocken
  • Lockvogel
  • Lockmittel
  • lügen

Etymology 2

From Old High German lochōn, from Locke (curl). The expected form *lochen was analogically reformed based on the noun.

Verb

locken (weak, third-person singular present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to curl (something)
  2. (reflexive) to curl
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • kräuseln, kringeln, ringeln, wellen

Further reading

  • locken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • locken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • locken” in Duden online
  • locken” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883), locken”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch loccon.

Verb

locken

  1. to lure

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

Swedish

Noun

locken

  1. definite singular of lock.
  2. definite plural of lock
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