cack.
A squawk.
Meaning & usage
A squawk.
A discordant note.
A cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeia; see cackle.
To squawk.
To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
To laugh.
I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeia; see cackle.
To defecate.
To defecate (on); to shit.
To excrete (something) by defecation.
To kill.
He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.
To cheat.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), from Latin cacāre (“excrete feces”). Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).
An act of defecation.
Excrement.
Rubbish; anything worthless.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), from Latin cacāre (“excrete feces”). Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).
Penis.
Where this word comes from
From cock.
An inexpensive boot or shoe made in the 19th or early 20th century for a baby or young child.
A young child.
Where this word comes from
Of unknown origin. Possibly from Scots cack (“soft shoe”).
obsolete spelling of cake (any sense)
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