Keck vs Reck - What's the difference?

keck | reck |

As nouns the difference between keck and reck

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

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). ----

reck

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)

To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.

* Sir Philip Sidney

this son of mine not recking danger

* Burns

And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.

* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:

Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13

Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.

To care; to matter.

* 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV

Little thou reck'st ^[2] of this sad store!

Would thou might never reck ^[1] them more!

* 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11

*:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall

*:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair

To concern, to be important

It recks not!

* Milton

What recks it them?

(obsolete) To think.

Derived terms

* (l) * reckless