different between keck vs reck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Imitative. Compare German köken (“to vomit”).

Verb

keck (third-person singular simple present kecks, present participle kecking, simple past and past participle kecked)

1. (intransitive) To retch or heave as if to vomit.
   • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy

     The faction (is it not notorious?)>br>Keck at the memory of Glorious:

Derived terms

• keckish

Translations

Etymology 2

Celtic.

Noun

keck (uncountable)

1. (dialectal) The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).

Etymology 3

From Manx keck (“shit”)

Noun

keck (uncountable)

1. (Isle of Man) animal dung

References

• 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect (page 98).

German

Etymology

From Middle High German quec, from Old High German quec, from Proto-West Germanic *kwik(k)w, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?ih?wós (“alive”).

Doublet of quick, which is from Low German. Cognate with Dutch kwiek, English quick; further with Latin v?vus, Russian ????? (živoj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Adjective

keck (comparative kecker, superlative am kecksten)

1. sassy; cheeky (bold and spirited)

Declension

Derived terms

• Keckheit

Related terms

• Quecksilber
• quick
• erquicken

Descendants

• Dutch: kek
• Danish: kæk
• Norwegian: kjekk
• Swedish: käck

Further reading

• “keck” in Duden online

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), from Proto-Celtic *kakk?, from Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (“to shit”).

Noun

keck m (genitive singular keck, plural keckyn)

1. faeces, excrement, defecation
2. droppings
3. dung, ordure
4. (vulgar) shit, crap

Interjection

keck

1. (vulgar) Shit!, Fuck!, Crap!

Etymology 2

From Old Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb), from cacc (“dung, excrement”).

Verb

keck (verbal noun keckey, past participle keckit)

1. excrete, defecate
2. (vulgar) shit, crap

Mutation

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)

1. (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.

   • 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...

   • 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 […]

2. (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?

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To think.

Derived terms

• reckful
• reckless

Anagrams

• KREC