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canks

canks is the plural of cank.

canks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cank.

Meaning of cank

Noun

cank (countable and uncountable, plural canks)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Gossip, chatter.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A chat.
  3. (UK, dialectal) A gossip, tell-tale.
  4. (UK, dialectal) The cry of a goose.
  5. (UK, dialectal) A fit of ill-humour.

See all 8 meanings of cank

Questions about canks

What is canks the plural of?
Canks is the plural of cank.

Words near canks in the dictionary

  1. cankins
  2. cankle
  3. cankles
  4. Canklow
  5. cankred
  6. canks
  7. canky
  8. Canköy
  9. Canlanipa
  10. Canlaon
  11. Canlaray

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canks (page history and authors); cank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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