lockenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /lɒkən/, /lɒkn̩/

動詞

locken

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

形容詞

locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
2. (Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands または 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.

   • 1852, Alex Harper, Fruits of Solitary Hours:

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

参照

• “locken”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

アナグラム

• Conkle, enlock