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单词 necker
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neckern.

Brit. /ˈnɛkə/, U.S. /ˈnɛkər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: neck v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < neck v.1 + -er suffix1.
A person who ‘necks’ (neck v.1 4); one who engages in fondling and kissing.
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the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > one who caresses or fondles
fondler1720
caresser1822
faddler1888
canoodler1903
necker1920
1920 M. Mitchell Let. 26 Mar. in Dynamo going to Waste (1985) 80 The opinion you must have of me! Insincere, cold-blooded, shallow, reckless, to say nothing of being an inveterate ‘necker’ (polite term for mush artists).
1923 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 3) 373 Necker, one given to cheek-to-cheek dancing.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle xii. 296 Do you know who that is that this necker is necking?.. My girl. No less.
1947 I. J. C. Brown Say Word 81 But they [sc. young gentlemen] are not known, I think, as neckers.
1966 ‘D. Shannon’ With Vengeance i. 15 Well, it's a body... Found about half an hour ago... By, I gather, a couple of neckers.
1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 132 Just last night I would have felt like a child among these smoochers and neckers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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