Lacked vs Cacked - What's the difference?
lacked | cacked |
(lack)
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
* 1994 , (Green Day),
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
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To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
(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 verbs the difference between lacked and cacked
is that lacked is (lack) while cacked is (cack).lacked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*lack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.
Anagrams
* ----cacked
English
Verb
(head)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.”
