acorn

• achorn (Chester)

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, 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”) or corn (“corn, seed”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/, /ˈeɪkɚn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔːn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɔː(ɹ)n, -eɪkə(ɹ)n

acorn (plural acorns)

2. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
3. (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
4. (zoology) See acorn-shell.
5. (informal) The glans penis.
   • 2021, A. W. Strouse, Form & Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumsion:

     The Romans, likewise, represented the uncouth Priapus—the god of rustic fertility and sexual assault—as comically well endowed, with his acorn showing.

6. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

• (fruit of an oak): oak

• (glans penis): Tony Thorne (2014) “acorn”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

• acorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Carno, Coran, Corna, acron, caron, coran, narco, narco-, racon

• accherne, accorn, accorne, acharn, acorne, acurne, acre, akire, akkorn, akorn, hakern, ocorn

From Old English æcern, from Proto-West Germanic *akran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.

The last element of this word is often remodelled on corn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakɔrn/, /ˈaːkɔrn/

acorn

1. An acorn or similar fruit.

• English: acorn
• Scots: aicorn

• “ā̆korn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.