different between freck vs reck
freck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??k/
Etymology 1
Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.
Verb
freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked)
- (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
- the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- frack
Adjective
freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)
- (Scotland) prompt; eager
Anagrams
- KFCer
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reck
English
Alternative forms
- reak (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English r???an, r??an (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *r?kijan? (“to care, take care”), from Proto-Indo-European *r??-, *r?g- (“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”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?k
Verb
reck (third-person singular simple present recks, present participle recking, simple past and past participle recked or (obsolete) rought, raught)
- (transitive or intransitive, archaic) To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 1, Scene 3:
- Ophelia:
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.
- Ophelia:
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Chapter 13:
- Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, line 50:
- ...with that care lost
went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse
he recked not...
- ...with that care lost
- 1822, John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio, vol. XIV:
- Little thou reck'st of this sad store!
- Would thou might never reck them more!
- 1900, Ernest Dowson, Villanelle of Marguerite's, lines 10-11:
- She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
- With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]
- 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 1, Scene 3:
- (transitive or intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern, to be important or earnest.
- Hit ne recketh! (= It recks not!)
- 1637, John Milton, Lycidas:
- What recks it them?
- (intransitive, obsolete) To think.
Derived terms
- reckful
- reckless
Anagrams
- KREC
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