neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: necks
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 knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
Senses: examples: text: Giraffes have long necks.
text: Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.
ref: 2019 October 15, ZA/UM, Robert Kurvitz, quoting You, Disco Elysium, →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
glosses: The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
glosses: The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
glosses: The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
glosses: A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
examples: a neck forming the journal of a shaft
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
glosses: The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
topics: architecture
glosses: The gorgerin of a capital.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
examples: to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
glosses: A person's life.
glosses: A falsehood; a lie.
examples: text: Shorty throw neck like a geese
She make me speak Portuguese
ref: 2016, “Pimptations”, performed by Smino:
text: She drop neck for a check and a paystub
ref: 2018, “Florida Thang”, in The South Got Something To Say, performed by Pouya:
glosses: Fellatio
examples: text: The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands
ref: 1837, R. A. R., The Everyday Book, page 1169:
text: "The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 266:
glosses: A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
Synonyms: cervix
collum
Derived terms: word: albatross around one's neck
word: albatross round one's neck
word: boatneck
word: bootneck
word: bottleneck
word: brass neck
word: brass-neck
word: breakneck
word: break one's neck
word: breathe down someone's neck
word: bullneck
word: bust one's neck
word: catch it in the neck
word: checkup from the neck up
word: chicken-neck
word: Codd-neck bottle
word: cowlneck
word: crew neck
word: crewneck
word: crookneck
word: dead from the neck up
word: deer-neck
word: Derbyshire neck
word: devil-on-the-neck
word: drake's-neck green
word: drop neck
word: ewe neck
word: fall on someone's neck
word: fall upon someone's neck
word: fiddleneck
word: fiddler's neck
word: foreneck
word: frilled-neck lizard
word: frilled neck lizard
word: frillneck
word: gamer neck
word: get it in the neck
word: give neck
word: gooseneck
word: halterneck
word: halter neck
word: harden one's neck
word: have the world by the neck
word: hindneck
word: jewel-neck
word: leatherneck
word: legs all the way to one's neck
word: limberneck
word: littleneck
word: long-neck
word: longneck
word: midneck
word: my neck
word: neckache
word: neck and crop
word: neck and heels
word: neck and neck
word: neck-and-neck
word: neckband
word: neckbeard
word: neck bearing
word: neckbeef
word: neckbiter
word: neckbone
word: neck brace
word: neck-brace
word: neckbrace
word: neck-cloth
word: neckcloth
word: neck corset
word: neck day
word: neck-deep
word: neckdeep
word: neck deep
word: neck down
word: neckdown
word: neck eel
word: necker
word: neckercher
english: from kerchief
translation: from kerchief
word: neckerchief
word: neckful
word: neck-gable
word: neck gaiter
word: neckgear
word: neck guard
word: neck-guard
word: neckholder
word: neckhole
word: neckinger
word: neck in neck
word: neck joint
word: neck-kerchief
word: neck kerchief
word: neck knife
word: necklace
word: neckland
word: neckless
word: necklet
word: necklift
word: necklike
word: neckline
word: necklock
word: neckmold
word: neckmould
word: neck of the woods
word: neck oil
word: neck or nothing
word: neck pad
word: neckpiece
word: neck pillow
word: neckplate
word: neck plate
word: neck ring
word: neckroll
word: neckshot
word: neckspring
word: neckstrap
word: neck sweetbread
word: necktie
word: neck-turner
word: neck up
word: neck verse
word: neckward
word: neckwarmer
word: neckwear
word: neckweed
word: neck yoke
word: neckyoke
word: neknomination
word: open-neck
word: pain in the neck
word: pencil neck
word: pencil-neck
word: polo neck
word: polo-neck
word: polo neck sweater
word: pseudoneck
word: redneck
word: red-necked buzzard
word: red neck syndrome
word: renecked
word: ring-neck
word: ringneck
word: risk one's neck
word: rollneck
word: roughneck
word: rubberneck
word: rubbernecking
word: save one's neck
word: scoopneck
word: scoop neck
word: shitneck
word: shunting neck
word: side-neck
word: sideneck
word: snakeneck
word: squareneck
word: stick one's neck out
word: stiff neck
word: stiff-necked
word: stiffnecked
word: swan neck
word: swan neck deformity
word: tech neck
word: text neck
word: thickneck
word: topneck
word: turtle-neck
word: turtle neck
word: turtleneck
word: turtle-neck sweater
word: up to one's neck
word: up to one's neck in alligators
word: V-neck
word: volcanic neck
word: wind one's neck in
word: woollyneck
word: wryneck
Related terms: throat