Cauk vs Cack - What's the difference?
cauk | cack |
A squawk.
* 1916 , Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America ,
A discordant note.
(of a bird) To squawk.
* 1990 , P. H. Liotta, Learning to Fly ,
* 2000 , Minnesota Ornithologists? Union, The Loon , Volumes 72-74,
* 2007 , Turk Allcott, Time Leak ,
(brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
To defecate.
* 2005 , M. J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams ,
(US, slang) To kill.
(slang) penis.
As nouns the difference between cauk and cack
is that cauk is (mineral) an opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar while cack is a squawk or cack can be an act of defecation or cack can be (slang) penis.As a verb cack is
(of a bird) to squawk or cack can be to defecate or cack can be (australian slang) to laugh.cack
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeia.Noun
(en noun)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.
Verb
(en verb)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.
page 37,
- While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
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.
- 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)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.’
- “He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.”
