spean
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
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- 5
Definition of spean
3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic, dialectal)A teat or nipple of a cow.
“The Genital part is all nervy; the Tail ſmall; and the Hind hath Udders betwixt her Thighs, with four Speans or Tets, like a Cow.”
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noun
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(archaic, dialectal)A teat or nipple of a cow.
“The Genital part is all nervy; the Tail ſmall; and the Hind hath Udders betwixt her Thighs, with four Speans or Tets, like a Cow.”
verb
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(alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of spane.
“1899, Colville, Vernacular, page 15, Beginning life as a grice, the pig when speaned became a shot.”
name
- A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into the River Lochy.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English *spene, *spane, from Old English spane, spanu (“teat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spanu, *spenu, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast; teat”). Cognate with West Frisian spien…
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From Middle English *spene, *spane, from Old English spane, spanu (“teat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spanu, *spenu, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast; teat”). Cognate with West Frisian spien (“nipple”), Dutch speen (“nipple”), Danish spene (“teat”), Swedish spene (“teat, nipple, dug”), Icelandic speni (“teat”). Alternatively a borrowing from Dutch speen (“nipple, teat”), from the same Proto-Germanic origin as above.
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