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Cacked vs Carked - What's the difference?

cacked | carked |

As verbs the difference between cacked and carked

is that cacked is (cack) while carked is (cark).

cacked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cack)

    • 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
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    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.

    • carked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cark)

    • Anagrams

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    cark

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
  • To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
  • *1831 , (Adam Clarke), VI p.600:
  • *:Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
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  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
  • * Spenser
    • His heavy head, devoid of careful cark .
  • * Motherwell
    • Fling cark and care aside.
  • * R. D. Blackmore
    • Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
  • (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

    • Etymology 2

    From (caulk)

    Verb

    (en verb)

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