# neck
## English

Picture dictionary :
head
skull
brain
eye
lip
nose
mouth
chin
jaw
ear
temple
neck :

### Etymology 1

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 knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).

#### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* IPA: /nɛk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛk

#### Noun

neck (plural necks)
* (anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
    Giraffes have long necks.
** 2019 October 15, ZA/UM, Robert Kurvitz, quoting You, Disco Elysium, →OCLC:Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.
* 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.
** 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
* (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.
* (geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
* (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
* (figurative) A person's life.
    to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
* (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
* (slang) Fellatio
** 2016, “Pimptations”, performed by Smino:Shorty throw neck like a geese She make me speak Portuguese
** 2018, “Florida Thang”, in The South Got Something To Say, performed by Pouya:She drop neck for a check and a paystub
* (now historical) A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
** 1837, R. A. R., The Everyday Book, page 1169:The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands
** 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 266:"The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.

##### Synonyms

* cervix, collum

##### Derived terms

* albatross around one's neck
* albatross round one's neck
* boatneck
* bootneck
* bottleneck
* brass-neck
* brass neck
* breakneck
* break one's neck
* breathe down someone's neck
* bullneck
* bust one's neck
* catch it in the neck
* checkup from the neck up
* chicken-neck
* Codd-neck bottle
* cowlneck
* crew neck
* crewneck
* crookneck
* dead from the neck up
* deer-neck
* Derbyshire neck
* devil-on-the-neck
* drake's-neck green
* drop neck
* ewe neck
* fall on someone's neck
* fall upon someone's neck
* fiddleneck
* fiddler's neck
* foreneck
* frilled-neck lizard
* frilled neck lizard
* frillneck
* gamer neck
* get it in the neck
* give neck
* gooseneck
* halter neck
* halterneck
* harden one's neck
* have the world by the neck
* hindneck
* jewel-neck
* leatherneck
* legs all the way to one's neck
* limberneck
* littleneck
* longneck
* long-neck
* midneck
* my neck
* neckache
* neck and crop
* neck and heels
* neck and neck, neck-and-neck
* neckband
* neckbeard
* neck bearing
* neckbeef
* neckbiter
* neckbone
* neck brace
* neckbrace
* neck-brace
* neck-cloth
* neckcloth
* neck corset
* neck day
* neckdeep
* neck deep
* neck-deep
* neckdown
* neck down
* neck eel
* necker
* neckercher
* neckerchief (from kerchief)
* neckful
* neck-gable
* neck gaiter
* neckgear
* neck-guard
* neck guard
* neckholder
* neckhole
* neckinger
* neck in neck
* neck joint
* neck-kerchief
* neck kerchief
* neck knife
* necklace
* neckland
* neckless
* necklet
* necklift
* necklike
* neckline
* necklock
* neckmold
* neckmould
* neck of the woods
* neck oil
* neck or nothing
* neck pad
* neckpiece
* neck pillow
* neckplate
* neck plate
* neck ring
* neckroll
* neckspring
* neckstrap
* neck sweetbread
* necktie
* neck-turner
* neck up
* neck verse
* neckwarmer
* neckweed
* neckyoke
* neck yoke
* neknomination
* open-neck
* pain in the neck
* pencil-neck
* pencil neck
* polo neck, polo-neck
* polo neck sweater
* pseudoneck
* redneck
* red-necked buzzard
* red neck syndrome
* renecked
* ring-neck
* ringneck
* risk one's neck
* rollneck
* roughneck
* save one's neck
* scoop neck
* scoopneck
* shitneck
* shunting neck
* sideneck
* side-neck
* snakeneck
* squareneck
* stick one's neck out
* stiff neck
* stiffnecked
* stiff-necked
* swan neck
* swan neck deformity
* tech neck
* text neck
* topneck
* turtle-neck
* turtle neck
* turtleneck
* turtle-neck sweater
* up to one's neck
* up to one's neck in alligators
* V-neck
* volcanic neck
* wind one's neck in
* wryneck

##### Translations

A-Pucikwar: loŋo
Abkhaz: ахәда (axʷda)
Acehnese: takuë
Adyghe: пшъэ (pŝɛ)
Afrikaans: nek (af), hals
Ainu: レクッ (rekut)
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Akan: ɛkɔn
Aklanon: liog
Albanian: qafë (sq) f
Amharic: አንገት (ʾängät)
Andi: гару (garu)
Arabic: رَقَبَة f (raqaba), عُنُق (ar) m (ʕunuq)
Egyptian Arabic: رقبة f (raʔaba)
Hijazi Arabic: رقبة f (ragaba)
Juba Arabic: ragaabta
Moroccan Arabic: عنق m (ʕunq)
South Levantine Arabic: رقبة f (ráʔabe (Ramallah), rágaba (Gaza))
Armenian: վիզ (hy) (viz), պարանոց (hy) (paranocʻ)
Old Armenian: վիզ (viz), պարանոց (paranocʻ), ուլն (uln), ճիտ (čit), փող (pʻoł)
Aromanian: gushi, gushã
Assamese: গল (gol), ডিঙি (diṅi)
Asturian: pescuezu (ast) m
Atikamekw: okowiw
Avar: габур (gabur)
Aymara: kunka (ay)
Azerbaijani: boyun (az)
Bahnar: hơko, ako
Baluchi: گردن (gardin, gardan)
Banjarese: gulu (bjn)
Bashkir: муйын (muyın)
Basque: sama (eu)
Bau Bidayuh: tunguo
Belarusian: шы́я f (šýja)
Bengali: গলা (bn) (gola), গর্দান (bn) (gordan)
Bhojpuri: गर्दन (gardan)
Bikol Central: liog (bcl)
Bolinao: liey
Breton: gouzoug (br)
Brunei Malay: lihir
Buginese: ellong
Bulgarian: ши́я (bg) f (šíja), врат (bg) m (vrat)
Burmese: လည်ပင်း (my) (lanypang:)
Buryat: хүзүүн (xüzüün)
Catalan: coll (ca) m
Cebuano: liog
Central Melanau: tengok
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: c̈hano
Chechen: лаг (lag)
Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏤᏂ (ayvtseni)
Chichewa: khosi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 頸 / 颈 (geng$^2$)
Eastern Min: 脰骨 (dâiu-gáuk)
Gan: 頸 / 颈 (jiang$^3$)
Hakka: 頸 / 颈 (kiáng), 頸根 / 颈根 (kiáng-kîn)
Hokkien: 頷 / 颔 (zh-min-nan) (ām), 頷頸 / 颔颈 (zh-min-nan) (ām-kún, ām-kńg), 頷仔頸 / 颔仔颈 (ām-á-kún, ām-á-kńg), 頷頸仔 / 颔颈仔 (ām-kún-á, ām-kńg-á), 頷胿 / 颔胿 (zh-min-nan) (ām-kui), 頷頸胿 / 颔颈胿 (ām-kún-kui, ām-kńg-kui), 脰項 / 脰项 (tāu-hāng)
Jin: 脖子 (bah$^5$ zeh)
Mandarin: (formal) 頸 / 颈 (zh) (jǐng), (formal) 頸項 / 颈项 (zh) (jǐngxiàng), (informal) 脖子 (zh) (bózi)
Northern Min: 脰 (dĕ), 仲仲 (dē̤ng-dē̤ng)
Wu: 頭頸 / 头颈 ($^6$deu-cin), 頭頸骨 / 头颈骨 ($^6$deu-cin-kueq)
Xiang: 頸根 / 颈根 (jin$^3$ gen$^1$)
Chuvash: мăй (măj)
Coptic: ⲛⲁϩⲃⲓ f (nahbi), ϧⲁϧ m (xax)
Cornish: konna
Czech: krk (cs) m, šíje (cs) f
Dalmatian: cual m, zoglo m
Danish: hals (da) c
Daur: xujuu
Dhivehi: ކަދުރާ (kadurā)
Dongxiang: ghuzhun
Dupaningan Agta: leg
Dutch: hals (nl) m, nek (nl) m
Eastern Cham: ꨓꨰꨆꨶ (takwai)
Egyptian: (nḥbt f), (human) (ḫḫ f)
Erzya: кирьга (kiŕga)
Esperanto: kolo (eo)
Estonian: kael (et), kaelus
Even: никан (ņikan)
Evenki: никимна (ņikimna)
Finnish: kaula (fi)
French: cou (fr) m, nuque (fr) f (nape of the neck)
Friulian: cuel
Galician: pescozo (gl) m, colo m
Georgian: კისერი (ka) (ḳiseri)
German: Hals (de) m, (back of the neck) Nacken (de) m, (back of the neck) Genick (de) n
Gorontalo: bulo'o (gor)
Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 m (hals)
Greek: λαιμός (el) m (laimós)
Ancient: δέρη f (dérē), τράχηλος m (trákhēlos)
Greenlandic: qungaseq, tunusuk
Guaraní: ajúra (gn)
Gujarati: ગરદન (gu) (gardan)
Haitian Creole: kou
Hausa: wuya
Hawaiian: ʻāʻī
Hebrew: צַוָּאר / צוואר (he) m (tsavár)
Hidatsa: áaba
Higaonon: li-ug
Hindi: गर्दन (hi) f (gardan), कंठ (hi) m (kaṇṭh)
Hungarian: nyak (hu)
Icelandic: háls (is) m
Indonesian: leher (id)
Ingrian: kagla
Inuktitut: ᖁᖓᓯᖅ (qongasiq)
Iranun: le'eg
Irish: muineál m
Italian: collo (it) m
Iu Mien: jaang
Japanese: 首 (ja) (くび, kubi)
Javanese: gulu (jv)
Jeju: 목 (mok)
Kabardian: пщэ (kbd) (pśɛ)
Kabyle: iri
Kalmyk: күзүн (küzün)
Kannada: ಕತ್ತು (kn) (kattu)
Kashmiri: گَردَن (gardan)
Kashubian: szëja
Kazakh: мойын (moiyn)
Khamti: please add this translation if you can
Khasi: ryndang
Khiamniungan Naga: shâng
Khmer: ក (km) (kɑɑ)
Kikuyu: mbogo
Kimaragang: liou
Kituba: kingu
Klias River Kadazan: liyow
Koho: nko
Kolami: గర్దన్ (gardan)
Komi-Permyak: голя (goľa)
Kongo: kingu
Korean: 목 (ko) (mok)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مِل (mil), ئەستۆ (esto)
Laki: مِل (ku) (mil)
Northern Kurdish: stû (ku)
Southern Kurdish: مِل (ku) (mil)
Kyrgyz: моюн (ky) (moyun)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Lak: ссурссу (s:urs:u)
Lao: ຄໍ (lo) (khǭ)
Latgalian: koklys m
Latin: collum n, cervīx (la) f
Latvian: kakls (lv) m
Lutuv: rue
Lezgi: гардан (gardan)
Ligurian: collo m
Lithuanian: kaklas (lt) m
Lombard: coll (lmo) m
Lotud: liou
Low German: Hals (nds) m
Luhya: likosi
Macedonian: врат (mk) m (vrat), шија f (šija)
Maguindanao: lig
Makasar: kellong
Malagasy: vozona (mg)
Malay: leher (ms)
Malayalam: കഴുത്ത് (ml) (kaḻuttŭ)
Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣᠨ (monggon)
Mandinka: kaŋo
Mansaka: liyug
Manx: mwannal
Maori: kakī
Maranao: lig
Marathi: मान (mr) (mān)
Mari: шӱй (šüj)
Maricopa: miipuk
Mauritian Creole: kou
Meriam: tabó
Moksha: кърга (kərga)
Mon: ကံ (mnw)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хүзүү (mn) (xüzüü)
Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦᠦ (küǰügüü)
Motu: aio
Muong: cố
Nahuatl: quechtli (nah)
Nanai: монгон (moŋon)
Nauruan: teren (na)
Navajo: akʼos
Neapolitan: cuollo m
Newar: कथु (kathu)
Nganasan: бакәз̌әә (bakəžəə)
Ngarrindjeri: kuri
Nivkh: ӄʼос (qʼos)
Norman: co m
Northern Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hals (no) m
Nynorsk: hals m
Nuosu: ꆹ (li), ꇵꆹ (gup li)
Occitan: còl (oc)
Ojibwe: (my neck) nikwegan
Okinawan: くび (kubi)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: шиꙗ f (šija), вꙑꙗ f (vyja)
Roman: ⱎⰹⱑ f (šiě)
Old East Slavic: шиꙗ f (šija)
Old English: swēora m
Old French: col f
Old Javanese: gulu
Oromo: morma
Ossetian: хъуыр (qwyr), ӕфцӕг (æfcæg)
Ottoman Turkish: بویون (boyun), گردن (gerden), یال (yâl)
Pangasinan: bekleo
Pannonian Rusyn: шия f (šija)
Pashto: غاړه (ps) f (ǧāṛa)
Pennsylvania German: Hals m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: گَرْدَن (gardan), مُل (mol) (dialectal), گَری (gari)
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Piedmontese: col m
Polish: szyja (pl) f, kark (pl) m
Portuguese: pescoço (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਧੌਣ (dhauṇ)
Quechua: kunka (qu)
Rapa Nui: gao
Rohingya: gola
Romagnol: còl m
Romani: korr
Romanian: gât (ro) n
Romansch: culiez, culöz
Rungus: lliow
Russian: ше́я (ru) f (šéja), вы́я (ru) f (výja) (obsolete)
Rwanda-Rundi: ijosi
S'gaw Karen: ကိာ် (koḥ)
Sabah Bisaya: liou
Sami:
Inari: čeve
Northern: čeabet, čeabi, čeabát
Skolt: čeäppat
Southern: tjovrese
Samoan: ua (sm)
Sanskrit: ग्रीवा (sa) f (grīvā)
Santali: ᱦᱚᱴᱚᱜᱽ
Sardinian: trucu
Scottish Gaelic: amhach f, (person's) muineal m
Sebop: batok
Sekapan: ngo'a
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вра̑т m, ши̏ја f
Roman: vrȃt (sh) m, šȉja (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sherpa: མཇིང་པ (mjing pa)
Shona: mutsipa
Sicilian: coddu (scn) m
Sinhalese: බෙල්ල (si) (bella)
Slovak: krk (sk) m, šija f
Slovene: vrat (sl) m
Somali: qoor (so), sur
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: šyja f
Upper Sorbian: šija f
Spanish: cuello (es) m, pescuezo (es) m
Sranan Tongo: neki
Sundanese: tengek
Swahili: shingo (sw)
Swedish: hals (sv) c
Tagal Murut: liog
Tagalog: (literally) leeg (tl) n
Tajik: гардан (tg) (gardan)
Talysh:
Asalemi: گردن (gardan)
Tambunan Dusun: liou
Tamil: கழுத்து (ta) (kaḻuttu)
Taos: kʼə́onemą
Tarifit: iri m
Tatar: муйын (muyın), муен (tt) (muyen)
Tausug: liug
Telugu: మెడ (te) (meḍa)
Tetum: kakorok
Thai: คอ (th) (kɔɔ), ลำคอ (lam-kɔɔ)
Tibetan: མཇིང་པ (mjing pa)
Tigrinya: ክሳድ (kəsad)
Timugon Murut: liog
Tongan: kia
Tulu: ಕೆಕ್ಕಿಲ್ (kekkilŭ), ಕಂಟೆಲ್ (tcy) (kaṇṭelŭ)
Turkish: boyun (tr)
Turkmen: boýun (tk)
Tuvan: моюн (moyun)
Ukrainian: ши́я f (šýja)
Urdu: گَرْدَن f (gardan), کَنْٹھ m (kanṭh)
Uyghur: بويۇن (boyun)
Uzbek: bo'yin (uz), gardan (uz)
Venetan: còl (vec) m, coło m, col m
Veps: kagl
Vietnamese: cổ (vi)
Volapük: särvig (vo), (back of the neck) nük (vo)
Waray-Waray: liog
Welsh: gwddf (cy) m
West Coast Bajau: kelong
West Frisian: nekke c
Winnebago: caaše
Woiwurrung: koorrn
Wolof: baat (wo)
Xhosa: intamo
Yakan: kellong
Yakut: моой (mooy)
Yiddish: האַלדז m (haldz)
Yoruba: ọrùn
Yurok: pahtuen
Zazaki: mêr, vıle (diq)
Zealandic: 'als m, nikke f
Zhuang: hoz
Zulu: intamo (zu) class 9/10 :
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##### See also

* throat

#### Verb

neck (third-person singular simple present necks, present participle necking, simple past and past participle necked)
* (transitive, slang) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
    Go neck yourself.
* (intransitive, informal, chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
    Synonyms: French kiss, grope, pet, smoodge, snog, snuggle, smooch
    Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
** 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 326:Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her.
* (transitive, slang) To drink or swallow rapidly.
    Synonym: chug
** 2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, page 146:Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
** 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.
** 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
* (intransitive) 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.

##### Derived terms

* necking

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Danish nøkke, Swedish näck.

#### Noun

neck (plural necks)
* (folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
    Synonyms: nis, nix, nixie, nixy
** 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234:The Neck no more upon the river sings. And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Enck

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English neck.

### Noun

neck m (plural necks)
* (geology) neck (solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano)

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English neck.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛk/
* Rhymes: -ɛk

### Noun

neck m
* (geology) neck (solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano)