Becked vs Backed - What's the difference?
becked | backed |
(beck)
(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
* Drayton
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Various, title=The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}
(back)
(obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
(in combination) Having specified type of back.
(in combination) Having specified type of backing.
As verbs the difference between becked and backed
is that becked is past tense of beck while backed is past tense of back.As an adjective backed is
put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.becked
English
Verb
(head)beck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beckNoun
(en noun)- The brooks, the becks , the rills.
Synonyms
* brook * burn * creek * streamEtymology 2
A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
(en verb)- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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Etymology 3
See back.Etymology 4
backed
English
Etymology 1
From (back) (verb)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(-)- He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed ; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
- a high-backed chair
- sway-backed
- red-backed shrike
- asset-backed securities