different between cack vs gack

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

Etymology

Apparently from the sound made; believed to have first appeared in comic strips.

Interjection

gack

1. (often repeated several times) The sound of a cat coughing up a hairball.
2. A similar sound made to show disgust or disapproval.

Verb

gack (third-person singular simple present gacks, present participle gacking, simple past and past participle gacked)

1. (intransitive) To make a 'gack' noise.
2. (transitive) To expectorate a hairball.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gack.

Swedish

Verb

gack

1. (archaic) singular imperative of gå.