flocken
See also: Flocken
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From flock + -en (plural present ending).
Verb
[edit]flocken
- (obsolete) plural simple present of be.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 16, verso:
- Yougthes folke now flocken in euery where, / To gather may buſ-kets and ſmelling bꝛere: […]
- 1598, John Marston, “The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres. Satyre II. Quedam sunt, et non videntur.”, in J[ames] O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Works of John Marston. […] (Library of Old Authors), volume III, London: John Russell Smith, […] , published 1856, →OCLC, page 221:
- Ho, Lynceus! what’s yonder brisk neat youth / Bout whom yon troupe of gallants flocken so, / And now together to Brownes Common goe?
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]flocken