Recks vs Rocks - What's the difference?
recks | rocks |
(reck)
To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Burns
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
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* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To care; to matter.
* 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
* 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
* Milton
(obsolete) To think.
(slang) Money.
(vulgar, slang) Testicles.
(slang) Crack cocaine.
Third-person singular simple present of to rock.
As verbs the difference between recks and rocks
is that recks is third-person singular of reck while rocks is third-person singular simple present of to rock.As a noun rocks is
plural of lang=en.recks
English
Verb
(head)reck
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- this son of mine not recking danger
- And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
- 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.
- Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
- Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
- Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
- It recks not!
- What recks it them?
Derived terms
* (l) * recklessrocks
English
Noun
(head)Verb
(head)- She rocks the cradle.
- The cradle gently rocks .
- Baseball rocks !