speen

From Middle Dutch spene, from Old Dutch *speno, from Frankish *spenō, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”).

• IPA^(key): /speːn/

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• Hyphenation: speen
• Rhymes: -eːn

speen f (plural spenen, diminutive speentje n)

1. a teat, a nipple

   Synonym: tepel

2. a dummy, a pacifier

   Synonym: fopspeen

3. a nozzle for bottle-feeding
4. (archaic) a hemorrhoid
   • 1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.

     […] want Hij sloeg de lieden dier stad van den kleine tot den grote, en zij hadden spenen in de verborgene plaatsen.

     […] for He smote the people of that town from the small to the great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.

   Synonym: aambei

• fopspeen
• speenkruid
• speenvarken
• spenen

• Afrikaans: speen

From Middle English *spane, from Old English spane, from Proto-West Germanic *spanu. Cognate with Fingallian spen.

• IPA^(key): /spɛːn/

speen

1. A cow's teat.
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Na speen to be multh, nar flaase to be shaure.

     no teat to be milked, nor fleece to be shorn.

speen

1. alternative form of zpeen (“to spend”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69