reck
verbEtymology
From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care, take care”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēǵ-, *rēg- (“to care, help”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch roeken, Low German roken, ruken (“to reck, care”), German geruhen (“to deign, condescend”), Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”), Danish røgte (“to care, tend”), Swedish rykta (“to groom”). See reckon.
Definitions
To take account of (someone or something)
To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
- Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.
- […]with that care lost / went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse / he recked not[…]
- Little thou reck'st of this sad store! Would thou might never reck them more!
To want (to do something)
To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.
- My master is of churlish disposition, / And little recks to find the way to heaven / By doing deeds of hospitality.
To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
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To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
To concern (someone)
To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
- It recks not!
- What recks it them?
To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for reck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA