keck

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Wadst hev us keck him intil the dike to die like ony dog? "

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  1. Quick; lively; pert. [Provincial English]
  2. To heave the stomach; retch, as in an effort to vomit. Also keckle. If his conscience were come to that unnatural dyscrasie, as to digest poyson and to keck at wholesom food, it was not for the Parlement, or any of his Kingdomes, to feed with him any longer. Milton, Eikonoklastes, ii.
  3. Hence To feel or manifest strong disgust. The faction —is it not notorious? — Keck at the memory of glorious. Swift.

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  1. A dial. variant of quick, prob. due to Icelandic kykr, variant of kvikr = English quick. Cf. kedge, kidge.
  2. A variant of kink, both (like G. köken, vomit) imitative of the sound of retching.
  3. from keck, v.
  4. from kex, in the form kecks, taken as a plural: see kex.
 

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