knep

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English *kneppen (compare Middle English knippette (“pincers for cracking nuts”)), from Old Norse kneppa (“to clamp, clasp, pinch, squeeze”), from Proto-Germanic *knappijaną (“to clamp, squeeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnebʰ- (“to press, tighten, constrict”). Cognate with Scots knep (“to clench, bind”), Norwegian Nynorsk kneppa (“to squeeze or join together”), obsolete Danish kneppe (“to snap”), Dutch knippen (“to clip, snip”), knijpen (“to pinch, nip”).

Verb

knep (third-person singular simple present kneps, present participle knepping, simple past and past participle knepped)

  1. (Northern England) To bite gently, nibble.
  2. (Northern England, of animals) To graze, crop; (of horses) to bite in play.
  3. (Northern England) To pick or pick off (e.g. flowers, berries, etc.)
  4. (Scotland) To clasp the hands; to clench one's fists.
  5. (Scotland) To tie or bundle something tightly and securely.

Noun

knep (plural kneps)

  1. (Northern England, in the plural) Synonym of kneppars

Derived terms

Danish

Verb

knep

  1. imperative of kneppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German knepe.

Noun

knep n (definite singular knepet, indefinite plural knep, definite plural knepa or knepene)

  1. a trick

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

knep

  1. simple past of knipe

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German knepe.

Noun

knep n (definite singular knepet, indefinite plural knep, definite plural knepa)

  1. a trick

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German knep. Cognate of Danish kneb. Compare also recent German Kniff. Related to the verb knipa (“squeeze”). Doublet of knip, knippe, and knippa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

knep n

  1. a trick; something designed to fool or swindle.
  2. an inventive or ingenuous solution to a problem, or such a shortcut to a solution

Declension

Declension of knep 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative knep knepet knep knepen
Genitive kneps knepets kneps knepens

Verb

knep

  1. past indicative of knipa

References

  • knep in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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