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knack
[nak] 
–noun
| 1. | a special skill, talent, or aptitude: He had a knack for saying the right thing. |
| 2. | a clever or adroit way of doing something. |
| 3. | a trick or ruse. |
| 4. | a sharp, cracking sound. |
| 5. | Archaic. a knickknack; trinket. |
Origin:
1325–75; ME: trick; perh. same word as knak sharp-sounding blow, rap, cracking noise (imit.)
1325–75; ME: trick; perh. same word as knak sharp-sounding blow, rap, cracking noise (imit.)
Synonyms:
1. aptness, facility, dexterity.
1. aptness, facility, dexterity.
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| knack (nāk) n.
[Middle English knakke, from Middle Dutch cnacken, to strike, crack, probably of imitative origin.] |
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Knack
Knack\, v. i. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knacken to break, Dan. knage to crack, and E. knock.]1. To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Bp. Hall. 2. To speak affectedly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.Knack
Knack\, n. 1. A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack. A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. --Shak. 2. A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity. The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears. --B. Jonson. The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. --Swift. 3. Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device. "The knacks of japers." --Chaucer. For how should equal colors do the knack ! --Pope.
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Language Translation for : knack
Spanish:
truco, habilidad,
German:
der Dreh,
Japanese:
こつ
knack
1369, "deception, trick, device," of uncertain origin, probably from a Low Ger. word meaning "a sharp sounding blow" (cf. M.E. knak, c.1380; Ger. knacken "to crack"), of imitative origin. Sense of "special skill" is first recorded 1581, if this is in fact the same word.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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