Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To ease the body by stool.
- noun Human excrement: usually in the plural.
- To void, as excrement.
- noun A shoemakers' name for an infant's shoe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.
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- noun A
squawk . - noun A
discordant note. - verb of a bird To squawk.
- verb To incorrectly play a note by hitting a
partial other than the one intended. - noun slang
penis . - verb Australian slang To
laugh . - verb intransitive To
defecate . - verb US, slang To
kill . - noun An act of defecation.
- noun Excrement.
- noun Rubbish.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Several of the words used in Earl Sterndale are found in other dialects of the British Isles, such as cack-handed 'clumsy', chuntering 'mumbling disagreeably', and nous, 'common sense'.
On a disappearing dialect DC 2009
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Several of the words used in Earl Sterndale are found in other dialects of the British Isles, such as cack-handed 'clumsy', chuntering 'mumbling disagreeably', and nous, 'common sense'.
Archive 2009-01-01 DC 2009
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Is this some kind of cack-handed attempt to stem the Lib Dem advances in Henley-on-Thames?
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If any one be carving awkwardly with the left wrist doubled under, the right arm angularly extended, and the knife sawing at a joint, our village miners and country Californians call it "cack -" or "cag-handed."
The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867
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This is the kind of cack you'd expect in Hello Magazine. well done for taking the trouble to create a new account 3mins ago
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ladylove 2010
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He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut.
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He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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Like everything else the Lib-Dem's have been involved in so far in this godawful government this is a cack handed mess and Clegg et al have nobody to blame but themselves for making themselves so noxious and toxic their mere involvement practicaly dooms it to failure.
Constitutional reform: Alternative currents | Editorial 2011
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He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut.
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He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut.
MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1) 2009
yarb commented on the word cack
Mild UK slang for shit, by extension anything sub-standard or shonky.
August 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cack
From the OED. This word can be a verb:
app. ad. L. cac-re in same sense, whence also MDu. cacken, Du. kakken, early mod.Ger. kacken, Da. kakke; also Boh. kakati, Pol. kaka.
1. intr. To void excrement.
1436 Pol. Poems (1859) II. 170 Wythoute Calise in ther buttere the cakked. c1440 Promp. Parv. 58/1 Cakkyn, or fyystyn, caco. c1500 DUNBAR Feneit Frier 101 Ffor feir vncunnandly he cawkit. 1570 LEVINS Manip. 5 To cake, cacare. 1611 COTGR., Chier, to cacke. a1710 POPE Alley i, Some cack against the wall. 1731 in BAILEY II.
2. trans. To void as excrement.
1485 CAXTON Trevisa's Higden IV. x. (1527) 158 One that hadde cacked golde. 1549 CRANMER in Strype Life (1694) App. 105 Because the Devil could not get out at his mouth, the man blew him, or cacked him out behind.
Or a noun:
f. same source as prec.: used already in OE. in the comb. cac-hús ‘latrina’.
c1600 Timon V. v. (1842) 89 Hee hath a face like one's that is at cack.
Hence cacky a. dial. and slang, foul with excrement. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict.)
1937 PARTRIDGE Dict. Slang s.v. cack. 1977 C. MCCULLOUGH Thorn Birds xvii. 407 ‘Don't you want to get married?’.. ‘Not bloody likely! Spend my life wiping snotty noses and cacky bums?’
Both definitions are marked "Obs. or dial." Whew.
August 29, 2008
yarb commented on the word cack
I love that one of the citations is from Caxton.
And that line from Timon is one of the bard's very best.
But hang on, it's not Timon - Timon has no V. v. What is this new devilry?
August 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cack
Hmm. Double-checked the OED. It definitely says V.v.
August 29, 2008
rolig commented on the word cack
The cognate of this is pretty widespread in the Slavic languages. In Slovene, for example, kakati "to poop", kakec "turd" (where -ati and -ec are standard verbal and nominal suffixes, respectively). Such words are not considered vulgar; rather, they are the words parents use with their children.
August 30, 2008
plethora commented on the word cack
I've only ever used this, or heard it used, as in cacked myself laughing.
August 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cack
Ha! I love that!
August 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word cack
Cf. Italian caccare, to defecate. Often abbreviated to cacca' in informal usage. Bad news for Brazilian footballer Kaka' who plays for AC Milan :-(
August 30, 2008
frindley commented on the word cack
I've come across plethora's usage, also "I cacked myself", where the "laughing" part is understood.
There is also "cack-handed", which can mean left-handed, but mostly I hear it in the sense of clumsy or inept. Apparently it's British, but it certainly has some currency in Australia.
September 1, 2008
madmouth commented on the word cack
it spawned cackard
May 2, 2009