speen
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch spene, from Old Dutch *speno, from Frankish *spenō, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”).
Pronunciation
Noun
speen f (plural spenen, diminutive speentje n)
- a teat, a nipple
- Synonym: tepel
- a dummy, a pacifier
- Synonym: fopspeen
- a nozzle for bottle-feeding
- (archaic) a hemorrhoid
- 1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.
- […] want Hij sloeg de lieden dier stad van den kleine tot den grote, en zij hadden spenen in de verborgene plaatsen.
- for He smote the people of that town from the small to the great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.
- Synonym: aambei
- 1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: speen
Yola
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English *spene, from Old English spane, from Proto-West Germanic *spanu.
Noun
speen
- spean
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
- Na speen to be multh, nar flaase to be shaure.
- no teat to be milked, nor fleece to be shorn.
Etymology 2
Verb
speen
- Alternative form of zpeen (“to spend”)
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69