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say it: KEN-ing
kenning is a noun meaning "conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry". It carries one recorded sense.
conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kenning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.