Lunken

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

  1. Describing something that has been closed or shut up, a usage found in older Scots and northern English dialect
  2. Shut or fastened, as a door, box or gate might be in certain regional forms of older English speech
  3. Used in some dialect speech to mean closed off or sealed, a sense now largely confined to old rural vocabulary

Etymology: "Lunken" follows the pattern of English past participles and adjectives ending in "-en," such as "sunken" and "shrunken," which descend from Old English strong verbs. If you can tell me where you encountered it, such as a dialect, a text, or a regional usage, I can work from that context.