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Added 9 October 2026

knead

/niːd/ verb

In Latin: depsō, fingō Wiktionary

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about knead at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.

noun

The act of kneading something.

verb

simple past and past participle of knead

Origin

From Middle English kneden, from Old English cnedan, from Proto-West Germanic *knedan, from Proto-Germanic *knudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press together”).

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