Becked vs Decked - What's the difference?
becked | decked |
(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. }}
(deck)
Adorned or embellished.
(in combination) Having a specified number or type of decks.
As verbs the difference between becked and decked
is that becked is (beck) while decked is (deck).As an adjective decked is
adorned or embellished.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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