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English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

cack (plural cacks)

1. A squawk.
2. A discordant note.

Verb

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. (of a bird) To squawk.
   • 2000, Minnesota Ornithologists? Union, The Loon, Volumes 72-74, page 37,

     While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
2. (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cac?re (“to defecate”); cf. also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).

Verb

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. (intransitive) To defecate.
2. (US, slang) To kill.

   “He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.”

Synonyms

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate
• (to kill): See Thesaurus:kill

Noun

cack (plural cacks)

1. An act of defecation.
2. Excrement.
3. Rubbish.

Synonyms

• (excrement): caca; see also Thesaurus:feces

Derived terms

• cack-handed, cack-house (archaic)

Translations

Etymology 3

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Verb

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. (Australian slang) To laugh.

   I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.

See also

• cack up

Etymology 4

From cock.

Noun

cack (uncountable)

1. (slang) penis.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æk/

Etymology 1

Clipping of acknowledged.

Noun

ack (plural acks)

1. (military, now historical) The letter A as used in signalling and other types of communications.
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 173:

     They had to begin at the beginning: learning the Morse code, flag-wagging, a succession of acks, and practice on the buzzer.

2. (data communications) acknowledgment signal

Alternative forms

• (data communications): ACK

Antonyms

• (data communications): nack, nak

Derived terms

• ack emma
• ack-ack

Interjection

ack

1. (radio communications) acknowledged

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Interjection

ack

1. Expressing distaste, alarm, or trepidation.

Anagrams

• AKC, cak

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish akh, from Middle Low German ach (“an unhappy interjection”).

Interjection

ack

1. alas, oh (exclamation of sorrow, etc.)

See also

• eja

Etymology 2

Clipping of ackumulator.

Noun

ack c

1. (electronics, slang) an electric accumulator.

Declension

Synonyms

• ackumulator