Keck
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kɛk/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Keck is a verb meaning (intransitive) To heave or retch as if to vomit.
Meaning
(intransitive) To heave or retch as if to vomit.
More Meanings
- (Isle of Man) animal dung
- (dialectal) The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
Example Sentences
The faction (is it not notorious?) / Keck at the memory of Glorious [William III of England]: […]
Indeed Erskine never opened his mouth, in Watt's presence, except to eat, or belch, or cough, or keck, or muse, or sigh, or sing, or sneeze.
Word Forms
- kecks
- kecking
- kecked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include downstairs, stockings, heave, keeve, reach, gack.
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