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Keck vs Geck - What's the difference?

keck | geck |

As nouns the difference between keck and geck

is that keck is (dialectal) cow parsley or keck can be animal dung while geck is .

As a verb keck

is to retch or heave as if to vomit.

keck

English

Etymology 1

Imitative

Verb

(en verb)
  • To retch or heave as if to vomit.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    Etymology 2

    Celtic

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dialectal) cow parsley

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • animal dung
    • References
    * 1924, Sophia Morrison, ?Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect (page 98). ----

    geck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • scorn; derision; contempt
  • (archaic, pejorative) Fool; idiot; imbecile
  • * Shakespeare
    • To become the geck and scorn / O' the other's villainy.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1859 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=George Eliot , title=Adam Bede , chapter=IX Hetty's World citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage= … for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at? }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To jeer; to show contempt.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To cheat or trick.
    • (Johnson)

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia * (Webster)