acker
Britishnoun
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informal a variant spelling of acca
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slang a pimple
Etymology
Origin of acker
for sense 2, a shortened form of acne
Example Sentences
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Like engel are declined masculine polysyllabic nouns ending in -el, -em, -en, -er, when their stem-syllable is long, as mantel, mantle, ātem, breath, morgen, morning, acker, field.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph
Its some 300 acker of land paying about 6 firlots the acker; hes held at on rentall thesse 100 years.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord
The sudden flowing of the sea, called in the fens of Lincolnshire, acker.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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