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Cack vs Cask - What's the difference?

cack | cask |

As nouns the difference between cack and cask

is that cack is a squawk or cack can be an act of defecation or cack can be (slang) penis while cask is a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.

As verbs the difference between cack and cask

is that cack is (of a bird) to squawk or cack can be to defecate or cack can be (australian slang) to laugh while cask is to put into a cask.

cack

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeia.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A squawk.
  • * 1916 , Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America , page 493,
    • for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking'' notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical ''cacks , broken whistled calls, and attempted trills.
  • A discordant note.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a bird) To squawk.
  • * 1990 , P. H. Liotta, Learning to Fly , page 32,
    • Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box.
  • * 2000 , Minnesota Ornithologists? Union, The Loon , Volumes 72-74, page 37,
    • While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
  • * 2007 , Turk Allcott, Time Leak , page 63,
    • Peckle snitted them off and cacked' at them. Then he flew up by the rope-tie spot and puffed out his chest and then the wrens made another dash for the scraps and he dove down and ' cacked them away.
  • (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
    • The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
    The conductor instructed the trumpet section not to cack the first note of the symphony.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare caca.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To defecate.
  • * 2005 , M. J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams , page 322,
    • ‘I asked him once if he got nervous before doing it,’ says Astin, ‘and he said he was absolutely cacking himself before going on stage, but as soon as he got there it was fantastic.’
  • (US, slang) To kill.
    • “He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.”
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of defecation.
  • Excrement.
  • Rubbish.
    • Derived terms
    * cack-handed, cack-house (archaic)

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australian slang) To laugh.
    • I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
    See also
    * cack up

    Etymology 4

    From cock.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) penis.

    • cask

    English

    (wikipedia cask)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
  • (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
  • * 1593 , , III. ii. 409:
    • A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.

    Derived terms

    * cask beer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a cask.

    • Anagrams

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