wakker
Meaning
awake
Concepts
awake
alert
spry
adroit
brisk
keen
active
lively
perky
sprightly
sprited
vigorous
wakeful
smart
assets
acrid
acrimonious
acute
lurid
poignant
sharp
vivacious
waspish
agile
waking
conscious
vigilant
living
unasleep
wide awake
awaken
Frequency
Hyphenated as
wak‧ker
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʋɑkər/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch wacker, from Old Dutch *wakkar, from Proto-West Germanic *wakr. Cognate with German wacker (“stalwart”), dialectal English waker (“vigilant”, see there).
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