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See also: Locken
English
Alternative forms
- lucken
Pronunciation
Verb
locken
- (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) past participle of lock
Adjective
locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken)
- (Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
- (Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands or toes).
- locken fingers
- (Scotland, Northern England) Stingy, tight-fisted.
- The locken hands do not give much.
- (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
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “locken”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
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German
Pronunciation
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)
- (transitive) to lure, to entice, to tempt
- Wir locken den Feind in eine Falle.
- We're luring the enemy into a trap.
- (transitive, impersonal) to be lured
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Synonyms
- anködern, anlocken, anziehen, fortlocken, heranlocken, heranrufen, herauslocken, herbeilocken, herlocken, hervorlocken, hineinlocken, ködern, reizen, rufen, weglocken
Derived terms
Related terms
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)
- (transitive) to curl (something)
- (reflexive) to curl
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Synonyms
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
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Middle Dutch
Etymology
Verb
locken
- 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
Swedish
Noun
locken
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