neck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: necks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: necks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: necking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: necked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: necked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
pos: noun
examples: Giraffes have long necks.
Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.
gloss: The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
pos: noun
gloss: The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
pos: noun
gloss: The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
pos: noun
gloss: A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
pos: noun
gloss: A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
pos: noun
examples: a neck forming the journal of a shaft
gloss: The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
pos: noun
gloss: The gorgerin of a capital.
pos: noun
gloss: A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
pos: noun
gloss: The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's life.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
gloss: A falsehood; a lie.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
informal
slang
gloss: Fellatio
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Shorty throw neck like a geese
She make me speak Portuguese
She drop neck for a check and a paystub
gloss: A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands
"The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.
gloss: To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Go neck yourself.
gloss: To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
intransitive
examples: Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
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.
gloss: To drink or swallow rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
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.
gloss: To decrease in diameter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: cervix
collum
Related words: throat
Derived words: above the neck rule
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
crewneck
crew neck
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
long-neck
longneck
midneck
millstone around one's neck
millstone round one's neck
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
neckcloth
neck-cloth
neck corset
neck day
neckdeep
neck deep
neck-deep
neck down
neckdown
neck eel
necker
neckercher
neckerchief
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
neck rule
neckshot
neckspring
neckstrap
neck sweetbread
necktie
neck-turner
neck up
neck verse
neckward
neckwarmer
neckwear
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
ringneck
ring-neck
risk one's neck
rollneck
roughneck
rubberneck
rubbernecking
save one's neck
scoopneck
scoop neck
screen neck
shitneck
shunting neck
sideneck
side-neck
snakeneck
squareneck
stick one's neck out
stiff neck
stiff-necked
stiffnecked
swan neck
swan neck deformity
tech neck
text neck
thickneck
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
woollyneck
wryneck
necking
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