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welk

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/wɛlk/

Definition of welk

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete)Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
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verb

  1. (obsolete)Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
  2. (obsolete)To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
    “As gentle Shepheard in ſweete euentide, / When ruddy Phebus gins to welke in weſt, [...]”
    “[T]he Church that before by inſenſible degrees welk'd and impair'd, now with large ſteps went down hill decaying; [...]”
  3. (dialectal)to soak, steep.
  4. (dialectal)to thrash, beat severely.
  5. To contract; to shorten.
    “But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.”
  6. (transitive)To form into wrinkles or ridges.

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of whelk.

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English welken, probably from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch welken (Dutch welken) and Middle Low German welken. Cognate with German welken. Ultimately, from Proto-West Germanic *wilkijan (“to become soft”), from Proto-Germanic *welkaz (“soft, withered”), according to Kluge, related to *wulkną (“cloud”). Compare also Old English wealwian (“to fade, wither”), Old English wlacu (“tepid, lukewarm”).

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