speen
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch spene.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /speːn/
- Hyphenation: speen
- Rhymes: -eːn
Noun
speen f (plural spenen, diminutive speentje n)
- A teat, a nipple.
- Synonym: tepel
- A dummy, a pacifier.
- Synonym: fopspeen
- A nozzle for bottle-feeding.
- (archaic) A hemorrhoid.
- 1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.
- […] want Hij sloeg de lieden dier stad van den kleine tot den grote, en zij hadden spenen in de verborgene plaatsen.
- […] for He smote the people of that town from the small to the great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.
- Synonym: aambei
- 1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.
Derived terms
- fopspeen
- speenkruid
- speenvarken
- spenen
Descendants
- Afrikaans: speen