kack

Noun (1)

cack (plural cacks)

1. A squawk.
   • Of course, so excitable a nature must find other than physical outlet for his irrepressible energy, and he accompanies his movements by more or less appropriate notes: scolding cacks, clinking, metallic rattles, musical trills, tree-toadlike krrrings – in fact, he possesses an almost endless...1897, Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, page 380
2. A discordant note.
3. (informal) A cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)
   • […] cacks, " the whitefronts or specklebellies in the Sacramento Valley1950, Field and Stream - Volume 55, page 42

Noun (2)

cack (countable and uncountable, plural cacks)

1. An act of defecation.
   • 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. (slang) Excrement.
   • I dive back in along the cobbles, step over the cack, wall an fence closin me down, barbed wire left, razor wire right, follow by puttied-in broken glass, spike rails an stuck-on warnings about dogs.2013, Nick Barlay, Hooky Gear

   Synonyms:

   caca

3. (slang) Rubbish; anything worthless.
   • 'See that' said the man, pointing with his fork at a trace of soemthing on the rim, 'that's not been washed properly. That's a bit of old cack on there.'2009, Monica Ali, In The Kitchen, page 425

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