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Cack vs Clack - What's the difference?

cack | clack |

In lang=en terms the difference between cack and clack

is that cack is to defecate while clack is to cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

As nouns the difference between cack and clack

is that cack is a squawk or cack can be an act of defecation or cack can be (slang) penis while clack is an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk.

As verbs the difference between cack and clack

is that cack is (of a bird) to squawk or cack can be to defecate or cack can be (australian slang) to laugh while clack is to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

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.

    • clack

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk
  • Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  • chatter; prattle
  • * South
    • Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .

    Derived terms

    * clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valve

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • * Thackeray
    • We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
  • To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
    • (Feltham)
  • (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.