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drukken.

to press

7 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈdrʏkə(n)/
  1. to press

    intransitive
  2. to print

    transitive
  3. to hide (by pressing its body close to the ground)

    reflexive
  4. to shirk

    colloquial · reflexive
  5. to defecate

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch drucken, from Old Dutch *thrucken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną. Cognate with German drücken (“press”) and drucken (“print”).

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