different between beak vs keak
beak
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *ba?- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bi?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
beak (plural beaks)
- Anatomical uses.
- A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
- The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
- The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
- (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- Figurative uses.
- Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
- (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
- (farriery) A toe clip.
- (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
- Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
- Colloquial uses.
- (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
- (slang, Southern England) cocaine.
- (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
Synonyms
- (rigid structure projecting from a bird's face): bill
- (human nose): honker, schnozzle
Derived terms
- beakish
- beaky
- wet one's beak
Translations
Verb
beak (third-person singular simple present beaks, present participle beaking, simple past and past participle beaked)
- (transitive) Strike with the beak.
- (transitive) Seize with the beak.
- (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
Synonyms
- (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant
Etymology 2
Unknown; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable".
Noun
beak (plural beaks)
- (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Ch. XXXVIII:
- They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you?
- 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
- Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Ch. XXXVIII:
- (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:
- It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:
References
- Ranko Matasovi? (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, ?ISBN, page 60
Anagrams
- Baek, bake, beka
Basque
Noun
beak
- absolutive plural of be
- ergative singular of be
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keak
English
Verb
keak (third-person singular simple present keaks, present participle keaking, simple past and past participle keaked)
- (archaic) To cackle or laugh.
- (Yorkshire) To jerk a limb or tilt the head.
References
- (cackle, laugh) Keak, in Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words, by Susan Kelz Sperling, 1977, page 16.
- (to jerk, to tilt) Keak, in A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire..., by C. Clough Robinson, 1867, page 67[1]
Anagrams
- Ekka, ekka
Basque
Noun
keak
- absolutive plural of ke
- ergative singular of ke
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