Necked

//nɛkt// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of neck form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having some specific type of neck or neckline. in-compounds, not-comparable
  2. 2
    Cracked. archaic, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    having a neck or having a neck especially as specified wordnet

Synonyms

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high neckedlow neckednecklikethroated

Example

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"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out."

Etymology

From neck + -ed.

Related phrases

black-necked craneblack-necked grebeblack-necked screamerblack-necked swanblue-necked ostrichbrass-neckedbull-neckeddark-necked tailorbirdewe-neckedfrill-necked lizardgray-necked buntinggrey-necked bunting

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