steken — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
- jab noun A quick, sharp poke or short straight punch.
- nettle noun A plant covered in tiny stinging hairs that cause an itchy rash when touched.
- pry verb To inquire into someone else's private affairs in a nosy or unwelcome way.
- rankle verb To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony.
- shiv noun A makeshift knife, often improvised from an everyday object.
- stab verb To pierce or wound someone or something with a pointed weapon such as a knife.
- sting noun A sharp pain, or the puncture and injection of venom by an insect or animal.
Senses
steken is used for these senses in English:
- bag (transitive) To put into a bag.
- jab To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
- nettle (transitive) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
- nettle (transitive, figurative) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
- rankle (transitive, or, intransitive) To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony.
- shiv (transitive, by extension) To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
bag — full definition
- noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
- verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.
jab — full definition
- noun A quick, sharp poke or short straight punch.
- noun British informal: an injection, especially a vaccination.
- noun A cutting remark aimed at someone.
- verb To poke or punch sharply and quickly.
- verb To give someone an injection.