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Definition: CACK |
CACKIntransitive verb1. To ease the body by stool; to go to stool. |
Etymology: Cack \Cack\, intransitive verb. [from Old English expression cakken, from the Latin expression cacare; akin to Greek and to OIr. cacc dung; compare to Anglo-Saxon cac.]. (references) |
Crosswords: CACK |
| Etymologies containing "CACK": Cackerel. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CACK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "CACK" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CACK": cack-handed, cack-handedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cack | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | неуклюжий (bulky, bumbling, cack-handed, chuckle, cloddish, clumsy, clunky, cubbish, gangly, gawky, goon, hamfisted, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, left handed, lout, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, splay, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy), неловкий (awkward, blundering, cack-handed, clumsy, gauche, gawky, heavy-handed, maladroit, self conscious, self-conscious, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful). (various references) | |
Thai | ไร้สาระ (boche, bosh, chuff, cobblers, codswallop, guff, silly), à¸à¸¶ (dump, Eartha (Kitt), kak, log, Richard the Third), ฆ่าคน. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuyện vá»› vẩn (boloney, buncombe, bunkum, cackle, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, flim-flam, guff, haver, jive, tommy rot), chuyện ba toác (cackle), chuyện ba hoa khoác lác câm cái má»"m Ä‘i (cackle), phân (ordure, rejectamenta, segment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CACK": cackle, cackled, cackler, cacklers, cackles, cackling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ack": Plack, snack, Sprack. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-k" | |
-2 letters: ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-k" | |
+1 letter: acock, clack, crack. | |
+2 letters: cackle, carack, clacks, cracks, cracky. | |
+3 letters: bawcock, cackled, cackler, cackles, calpack, caprock, caracks, carrack, carsick, cassock, clacked, clacker, cockade, cossack, cracked, cracker, crackle, crackly, crackup, cupcake, cutback, haycock, peacock, seacock. | |
+4 letters: aircheck, backache, backcast, backchat, backpack, bawcocks, blackcap, cacklers, cackling, callback, calpacks, caprocks, carracks, cassocks, charlock, chatchka, chatchke, chechako, chickpea, clackers, clacking, coalsack, coatrack, cockaded, cockades, cockapoo, cockatoo, cockboat, cocktail, comeback, corncake, cossacks, crackers, cracking, crackled, crackles, cracknel, crackpot, crackups, cupcakes, cutbacks, dabchick, gamecock, gimcrack, hatcheck, haycocks, kickback, necklace, nicknack, packsack, paycheck, peacocks, peacocky, rickrack, rucksack, scatback, seacocks, stockcar, ticktack. | |
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