keck
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
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- 4
/kɛk/
Definition of keck
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To heave or retch as if to vomit.
“The faction (is it not notorious?) / Keck at the memory of Glorious [William III of England]: […]”
“Indeed Erskine never opened his mouth, in Watt's presence, except to eat, or belch, or cough, or keck, or muse, or sigh, or sing, or sneeze.”
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verb
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(intransitive)To heave or retch as if to vomit.
“The faction (is it not notorious?) / Keck at the memory of Glorious [William III of England]: […]”
“Indeed Erskine never opened his mouth, in Watt's presence, except to eat, or belch, or cough, or keck, or muse, or sigh, or sing, or sneeze.”
noun
- (dialectal, uncountable)The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
- (uncountable)animal dung
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Imitative. Compare German köken (“to vomit”).
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