Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.

    Flechtwerk

    плете́ньpleténʹ, плетёный забо́рpletjónyj zabór

    плітplit

    framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence

  2. (countable, uncountable)A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.

    Kehllappen

    серёжкаserjóžka, боро́дкаboródka

    борідкаboridka

    a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

  4. (countable, uncountable)A barbel of a fish.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.

    Glöckchen, Berlocke

    боро́дкаboródka

  6. (countable, uncountable)Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.

    двойно́й подборо́докdvojnój podboródok

  7. (countable, uncountable)Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.

    Gold-Akazie

    ака́цияakácija, австрали́йская ака́цияavstralíjskaja akácija

    австралійська акаціяavstralijsʹka akacija

  8. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)An ear (organ of hearing).

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Nowadays, few ordinary city dwellers ever use the word "wattle".

    ruВ настоящее время, немногие из обычных городских жителей когда-либо используют слово «плетень». — mutternoise

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
construction of branches and twigs:
fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds:
Australian acacia:
Русский
By meaning 4
construction of branches and twigs:
fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds:
loose hanging skin:
Australian acacia:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
construction of branches and twigs:
fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds:
fleshy appendage on the neck of goat:
Australian acacia:

Origin

From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately fr

From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

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Forms

plural: wattles
Singularwattle
Pluralwattles

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards:lappet

Word family

13 related words

See also

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