cacking

Verb (1)

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. To squawk.
   • 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.1990, P. H. Liotta, Learning to Fly, page 32
2. (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
   • The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
3. (Australian, slang) To laugh.
   • I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.

Verb (2)

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. (intransitive) To defecate.
   • Can't cack... won't cack, My bum hole has gone on strike, I've huffed and puffed, grunted and groaned, And squeezed as hard as I liked, I've leant myself backwards, leant to the front, Raised my knees and then put them back, I've gripped the seat and pushed like hell, But still...I can't have a...2014, 'Rock Rampant', Mauve Flush, page 245
2. (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
   • ‘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.’2005, M. J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, page 322

   Synonyms:

   defecate

3. (transitive) To excrete (something) by defecation.
   • He smelled the ferrous oxide of blood and the farmyard stench of shit. He'd cacked it. He was empty and he'd cacked his load. The brushman came over, lisping slightly[…]2016, Nicholas Blincoe, Jello Salad, Canelo, →ISBN

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