locken

• lucken

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɒkən/, /lɒkn̩/

locken

1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) past participle of lock

locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
2. (Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands or toes).

   locken fingers

3. (Scotland, Northern England) Stingy, tight-fisted.

   The locken hands do not give much.

4. (Scotland, Northern England) Knit (of brows), also close-set, contracted.

   She stood there stock-still, her brows locken.

   • Alex Harper, Fruits of Solitary Hours (1852)

     A leering eye and locken brows, / And large Mongolian mouth and nose.

• locken in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

• Conkle, enlock

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔkn̩], [ˈlɔkŋ̩]
• Hyphenation: lo‧cken

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From Middle High German locken, from Old High German lockōn. Cognate with lügen (“to lie”), Latin laciō and Slovak lákať (“to allure”).

locken (third-person singular simple present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to lure, entice
2. (transitive) to tempt
3. (transitive, impersonal) to be lured

• anködern, anlocken, anziehen, fortlocken, heranlocken, heranrufen, herauslocken, herbeilocken, herlocken, hervorlocken, hineinlocken, ködern, reizen, rufen, weglocken

• Lockvogel
• verlocken

• lügen

From Old High German lochōn, from Locke (“curl”).

locken (third-person singular simple present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to curl sth
2. (reflexive) to curl

• kräuseln, kringeln, ringeln, wellen

From Old Dutch loccon, from Proto-Germanic *lukkōną.

locken

1. to lure

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: lokken
• Limburgish: lókke

• “locken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “locken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

locken

1. definite singular of lock
2. definite plural of lock