different between hector vs chiack

English

Etymology

From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hect?r or Ancient Greek ????? (Hékt?r), from ????? (hékt?r, “holding fast”), from ????? (ékhein), present active infinitive of ??? (ékh?, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold; to overpower”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: hec?tor

Noun

hector (plural hectors)

1. Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.

Translations

Verb

hector (third-person singular simple present hectors, present participle hectoring, simple past and past participle hectored)

1. (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.

   Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize
2. (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.

   Synonym: huff

Alternative forms

• hectour (obsolete, rare)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• hector in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

See also

• Not to be confused with hectare.

Anagrams

• Troche, orchet, rochet, rotche, tocher, troche

English

Alternative forms

• chyack

Etymology

From chi-ike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aijæk/, /t?aijæk/

Verb

chiack (third-person singular simple present chiacks, present participle chiacking, simple past and past participle chiacked)

1. (Australia) To taunt or tease in jest.
   • 1987, Sheila Anderson, End of the Season, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45,

     They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.

   • 2008, Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question, in True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction, page 13,

     Most poignantly of all, though, when I get fed up with working alone, I remember Victorian high school staffrooms of the sixties and seventies: the rigid hierarchy with its irritations, but also the chiacking, the squabbles, the timely advice from some old stager with a fag drooping off his lip.

   • 2008, Graeme Blundell, The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts, 2011, unnumbered page,

     We believed Melbourne?s two most extraordinary institutions were those of chiacking – taking the piss – and larrikinism. Although the latter would develop derogatory connotations, and chiacking was already beginning to die a slow death, sometimes perceived as offensive in its more alcoholic forms, especially by the women in our group.

2. (Britain) To taunt maliciously.

   The gang of youths chiacked the academic.

Synonyms

• hound
• taunt
• jeer

References