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spean.

A teat or nipple of a cow.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/spiːn/
  1. A teat or nipple of a cow.

    archaic · dialectal
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/spiːn//spiːn/
  1. Archaic form of spane.

    alt-of · archaic
Where this word comes from

From Middle English spanen (“to wean”); see spane.

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