Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To ease the body by stool.
- n. Human excrement: usually in the plural.
- n. A shoemakers' name for an infant's shoe.
- To void, as excrement.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To defecate.
- v. US, slang To kill.
- n. An act of defecation.
- n. Excrement.
- n. Rubbish.
- n. A squawk.
- n. A discordant note.
- v. of a bird To squawk.
- v. To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
- n. slang penis.
- v. Australian slang To laugh.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.
Etymologies
- From cock. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Several of the words used in Earl Sterndale are found in other dialects of the British Isles, such as cack-handed 'clumsy', chuntering 'mumbling disagreeably', and nous, 'common sense'.”
“Is this some kind of cack-handed attempt to stem the Lib Dem advances in Henley-on-Thames?”
“If any one be carving awkwardly with the left wrist doubled under, the right arm angularly extended, and the knife sawing at a joint, our village miners and country Californians call it "cack -" or "cag-handed.”
“This is the kind of cack you'd expect in Hello Magazine. well done for taking the trouble to create a new account 3mins ago”
“He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut.”
MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1)
“Like everything else the Lib-Dem's have been involved in so far in this godawful government this is a cack handed mess and Clegg et al have nobody to blame but themselves for making themselves so noxious and toxic their mere involvement practicaly dooms it to failure.”
The Guardian: Constitutional reform: Alternative currents | Editorial
“It was a beautiful day, which was lovely if you were there, but problematic for cack-handed photographers like me with the sun coming from all the wrong directions.”
“Some people will always be offended by something, and there will always be some cack-handed idiot willing to “embrace” their point of view.”
Make the lie big, make it simple and keep saying it. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“I've just been reading about a fellow called William Dampier, his writings are almost a work of art, not just in their subject which is wonderfuly fascinating but in their technique, the beautiful 18'th C sweeps of pen which make our scribblings look like the scrawlings of cack handed idiots.”
The Guardian: In praise of … a well-placed signature | Editorial
“The thing was we were in conversation about how center cack is such an overlooked position because of the 'no-nonsense' ideal associated with it.”
The Guardian: Judges have a blindspot whenever destroyers like Vidic play a blinder | Rob Bagchi
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cack’.
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
abitur, abiturs, abscisic, achar, achars, acquis, addings, aerobot, aerobots, aguna, agunah, agunot and 1465 more...
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samoritan's Words
moxie, zarf, crepuscular, serenity, halcyon, powerfuller, instant classic, abecedary, trilobite, doomsters, 'da bome, evanescence and 149 more...
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Vocabulary
My ever expanding vocabulary...
feuterer, abattoir, kibosh, sequin, shiftless, scrimshanker, sic, moniker, dogsbody, contranym, autoantonym, exhortation and 306 more...
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
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Specific Excrement
Words that describe poo *very specifically*.
guano, frass, spraints, fumets, mutessing, fiants, crottels, worm-cast, tath, bodewash, coprolite, bois de vache and 55 more...
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ten-year-old argot / playground life
dickweed, dickhead, umnnnnnnn, not!, itchy chin, ip dip sky blue i..., ip dip dog shit y..., bagsy, boff, snog, bogs, footy and 33 more...
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Distinctly British
Mostly but not limited to slang and some cockney guffy wibble
haberdashery, coventry, knackered, cack-handed, bate, bimble, blag, boffin, bonce, brolly, busk, cack and 71 more...
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Selected words from the Queen's English
British words/phrases/slang I love using in everyday conversation.
yob, wotcher, wotsit, arse, balls-up, barmy, bint, bloke, blimey, bobby, bollocks, brolly and 78 more...
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lingo:UK
Any words that would be regarded as typical UK colloquialism. Either Cockney, Irish, Scottish or any other that could be considered of UK origin and used in every day communication.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cack.
madmouth it spawned cackard May 2, 2009
frindley I've come across plethora's usage, also "I cacked myself", where the "laughing" part is understood.
There is also "cack-handed", which can mean left-handed, but mostly I hear it in the sense of clumsy or inept. Apparently it's British, but it certainly has some currency in Australia. Sep 1, 2008
bilby Cf. Italian caccare, to defecate. Often abbreviated to cacca' in informal usage. Bad news for Brazilian footballer Kaka' who plays for AC Milan :-( Aug 30, 2008
chained_bear Ha! I love that! Aug 30, 2008
plethora I've only ever used this, or heard it used, as in cacked myself laughing. Aug 30, 2008
rolig The cognate of this is pretty widespread in the Slavic languages. In Slovene, for example, kakati "to poop", kakec "turd" (where -ati and -ec are standard verbal and nominal suffixes, respectively). Such words are not considered vulgar; rather, they are the words parents use with their children. Aug 29, 2008
chained_bear Hmm. Double-checked the OED. It definitely says V.v. Aug 29, 2008
yarb I love that one of the citations is from Caxton.
And that line from Timon is one of the bard's very best.
But hang on, it's not Timon - Timon has no V. v. What is this new devilry? Aug 29, 2008
chained_bear From the OED. This word can be a verb:
app. ad. L. cac-re in same sense, whence also MDu. cacken, Du. kakken, early mod.Ger. kacken, Da. kakke; also Boh. kakati, Pol. kaka.
1. intr. To void excrement.
1436 Pol. Poems (1859) II. 170 Wythoute Calise in ther buttere the cakked. c1440 Promp. Parv. 58/1 Cakkyn, or fyystyn, caco. c1500 DUNBAR Feneit Frier 101 Ffor feir vncunnandly he cawkit. 1570 LEVINS Manip. 5 To cake, cacare. 1611 COTGR., Chier, to cacke. a1710 POPE Alley i, Some cack against the wall. 1731 in BAILEY II.
2. trans. To void as excrement.
1485 CAXTON Trevisa's Higden IV. x. (1527) 158 One that hadde cacked golde. 1549 CRANMER in Strype Life (1694) App. 105 Because the Devil could not get out at his mouth, the man blew him, or cacked him out behind.
Or a noun:
f. same source as prec.: used already in OE. in the comb. cac-hús ‘latrina’.
c1600 Timon V. v. (1842) 89 Hee hath a face like one's that is at cack.
Hence cacky a. dial. and slang, foul with excrement. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict.)
1937 PARTRIDGE Dict. Slang s.v. cack. 1977 C. MCCULLOUGH Thorn Birds xvii. 407 ‘Don't you want to get married?’.. ‘Not bloody likely! Spend my life wiping snotty noses and cacky bums?’
Both definitions are marked "Obs. or dial." Whew. Aug 29, 2008
yarb Mild UK slang for shit, by extension anything sub-standard or shonky. Aug 29, 2008