necken

Meaning

to tease

Frequency

35k
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

fetzele

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

fetzle

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

fuggse

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

vexiere

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

ziggle

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnɛkən/
Etymology

Intensive form of nagen (“to gnaw”), with semantic shift "to gnaw → to torment → to tease".

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