different between hackle vs hackee

English

Etymology

From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakul?, equivalent to hack +? -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hæk?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæk?l/
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

hackle (plural hackles)

1. An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. [from 15th c.]

   Synonyms: heckle, hatchel

2. (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. [from 15th c.]
3. (fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. [from 17th c.]
4. (usually now in the plural) By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans. [from 19th c.]
5. A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
6. A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair. [from 20th c.]
7. A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.

   Synonyms: panache, plume

8. Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.

Usage notes

In everyday speech, primarily used in phrase to raise someone's hackles (“to make one angry”), as in “It raises my hackles when you take that condescending tone.”.

Translations

Verb

hackle (third-person singular simple present hackles, present participle hackling, simple past and past participle hackled)

1. To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning. [from 17th c.]
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 155:

     Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.

2. (transitive) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
3. (archaic, transitive) To tear asunder; to break into pieces.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces

Translations

Further reading

• hackle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hackle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hackel

English

Etymology 1

From its chittering cry when alarmed.

Noun

hackee (plural hackees)

1. (US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.
   • 1865, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1 (page 600)

     The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.

   • 1894, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: Volume 21, Part 1

     The hackee, which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.

2. (US, dialect) The chipmunk.

Etymology 2

hack +? -ee

Noun

hackee (plural hackees)

1. (computing) The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system is broken into.
   • 1998, Annette N. Markham, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space (page 185)

     On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee).

   • 2003, Michael Chris Knapp, E-commerce: Real Issues and Cases (page 220)

     Fortunately for the "hackee" company, its computer security professionals found "electronic fingerprints" left by the other firm's personnel during the hacker attack, which led, in turn, to the discovery of the stolen e-mail.

   • 2011, Frederick Ramsay, The Eye of the Virgin (page 139)

     She had a hacker. The tables had been turned and she was the hackee.

Anagrams

• acheke

Spanish

Verb

hackee

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of hackear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of hackear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of hackear.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of hackear.