kegel

After Arnold Kegel.

kegel (plural kegels)

1. A contraction of the pubococcygeal muscles, performed for the purpose of strengthening them.

• kegel balls

kegel (third-person singular simple present kegels, present participle kegeling, simple past and past participle kegeled)

1. To clench one's perineum and pelvic muscles.

• Gleek, gleek

From Middle Dutch kēgel, from Old Dutch *kegil, from Proto-Germanic *kagilaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ɣəl/

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• Hyphenation: ke‧gel
• Rhymes: -eːɣəl

kegel m (plural kegels, diminutive kegeltje n)

1. cone
2. bowling pin
3. (usually in the diminutive) cone cell (in the retina)

• ijskegel
• kegelen
• kegelrob

From Old Dutch *kegil, from Proto-Germanic *kagilaz.

kēgel or kêgel? m

1. cone, wedge
2. bowling pin

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• kēgelen

• Dutch: kegel
• Limburgish: kieëgel (suggests a form with ê)

• “kegel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929