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Keak vs Seak - What's the difference?

keak | seak |

As a verb keak

is to cackle or laugh.

As a noun seak is

soap prepared for use in milling cloth.

keak

English

Verb

  • (archaic) To cackle or laugh.
  • (Yorkshire) To jerk a limb or tilt the head.

    • References

    * (cackle, laugh) Keak'', in ''Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words , by Susan Kelz Sperling, 1977, page 16. *(to jerk, to tilt) Keak'', in ''A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire... , by C. Clough Robinson, 1867, page 67[http://books.google.com/books?id=gHQKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA67&dq=keaked&lr=&ei=9eBASIKxC4-kswO2isz-Bw]

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    seak

    English

    Noun

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  • soap prepared for use in milling cloth
    • (Webster 1913)