cack

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A squawk.

   • […]for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical cacks, broken whistled calls, and attempted trills.
2. 2

   A discordant note.

3. 3

   A cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)

   • […] cacks, " the whitefronts or specklebellies in the Sacramento Valley
   • White geese aren't supposed to be such good eating and most of the gunners want "specs" or "cacks" or Hutchins or Canadas but I'll eat snow geese any time you don't want 'em.
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   1. 4

      To squawk.

      • Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box.
      • 2000, Minnesota Ornithologists′ Union, The Loon, Volumes 72-74, page 37, While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
      • Peckle snitted them off and cacked at them. Then he flew up by the rope-tie spot and puffed out his chest and then the wrens made another dash for the scraps and he dove down and cacked them away.
   2. 5

      To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.

      • The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
   3. 6

      To laugh.

      • I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
   4. 7

      To defecate.

   5. 8

      To defecate (on)

      To defecate (on); to shit.

      • ‘I asked him once if he got nervous before doing it,’ says Astin, ‘and he said he was absolutely cacking himself before going on stage, but as soon as he got there it was fantastic.’
      • […] through the open door, now directly below his feet, and nearly cacked his breeks when the stretcher skidded slightly on the shiny metal floor.
      • Another distinction she reported: my brother once cacked his pants and responded with the words, "It will never happen again" – and it didn't, […]
   6. 9

      To excrete (something) by defecation.

      • He smelled the ferrous oxide of blood and the farmyard stench of shit. He'd cacked it. He was empty and he'd cacked his load. The brushman came over, lisping slightly[…]
   7. 10

      To kill.

      • He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.
      • Stay, by your leave I will put in a distinguo; your goose has cacked.
   8. 11

      To cheat.

   9. 12

      An act of defecation.

   10. 13

       Excrement.

       • I dive back in along the cobbles, step over the cack, wall an fence closin me down, barbed wire left, razor wire right, follow by puttied-in broken glass, spike rails an stuck-on warnings about dogs.
       • " And have bird cack on their heads , " Jacques agreed cheerfully, to Ash's relief.
   11. 14

       Rubbish

       Rubbish; anything worthless.

       • 'See that' said the man, pointing with his fork at a trace of soemthing on the rim, 'that's not been washed properly. That's a bit of old cack on there.'
       • At first, he genuinely didn't recognize her without all that high-gloss cack on her face.
       • Not thinking, because he's got it in his hand, he wipes her mouth with the dirty dishcloth – leaves a little bit of cack on her lips, but she doesn't notice .
   12. 15

       Penis.

   13. 16

       An inexpensive boot or shoe made in the 19th or early 20th century for a baby or young…

       An inexpensive boot or shoe made in the 19th or early 20th century for a baby or young child.

       • In the cacks for infants I noticed a tasty little patent leather foxed with cloth top, an ox blood slipper with dainty bow, and then there are others with green cloth tops, Scotch plaids and vesting tops in a great variety of combinations.
   14. 17

       A young child.

       • Ma is calling breakfast. The little cacks are up. Billy, who is only six –and you are eight! –Billy tried to wash himself and got some soap in his eyes. Funny that little cacks like that always get soap in their eyes!
       • Seniors bully cacks because they were bullied as cacks. Old boys who were miserable here send their sons here to make them miserable. It's called tradition.
       • Even fresh Cacks with some prowess on the rugby or cricket field are likely to get it slightly easier than their quivering peers.
   15. 18

       obsolete spelling of cake (any sense)

       • Eye colours for dying blew, almost as good as Indico, made vp in round cacks or pieces, and packed one hundred cacks in a Fardell, worth the Fardell, fiftie to sixtie.
       • The picture of Governor Endicott sitting at table in the "Anchor" eating "cacks" and drinking "beare" robs this picturesque character in Colonial history of some of its lustre.

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