keck

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/kɛk/

Definition of keck

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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

  1. (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

  1. (dialectal, uncountable)The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
  2. (uncountable)animal dung

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

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

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