acorn
Plural: acorns
Noun
- The nut of the oak tree.
- fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
- The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
- A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
- See acorn-shell.
- The glans penis.
- A testicle.
Examples
- From the small word ’AN’ grew the mighty ACORN, extending his score significantly.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese, Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”), etc. Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.
Scrabble Score: 7
acorn: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordacorn: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
acorn: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary