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Reck vs Reak - What's the difference?

reck | reak |

As nouns the difference between reck and reak

is that reck is back or reck can be while reak is (obsolete) a prank or reak can be a rush.

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

    reak

    English

    Etymology 1

    Compare Icelandic hrekkr, or English wreak vengeance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A prank.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • They play such reaks .

    Etymology 2

    Compare .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rush.
  • * Drant
  • Feeds on reaks and reeds.
    (Webster 1913)