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/kæk/
Noun
A squawk.
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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 vocabulary .
[…]for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical cacks, broken whistled calls, and attempted trills.
When birds approach their cliffs in the spring, they often emit a series of rapidly repeated cacks, or notes of varying pitches. Sometimes the notes are very spirited; others are very soft. Male cacks tend to be higher pitched than those of females.
A discordant note.
A cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)
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[…] cacks, " the whitefronts or specklebellies in the Sacramento Valley
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White geese aren't supposed to be such good eating and most of the gunners want "specs" or "cacks" or Hutchins or Canadas but I'll eat snow geese any time you don't want 'em.
Verb
To squawk.
Usage- of a bird
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Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box.
2000, Minnesota Ornithologists′ Union, The Loon, Volumes 72-74, page 37, While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
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Peckle snitted them off and cacked at them. Then he flew up by the rope-tie spot and puffed out his chest and then the wrens made another dash for the scraps and he dove down and cacked them away.
To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
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The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
To laugh.
Usage- Australian
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I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
Verb
To defecate.
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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 cack.
To defecate (on); to shit.
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‘I asked him once if he got nervous before doing it,’ says Astin, ‘and he said he was absolutely cacking himself before going on stage, but as soon as he got there it was fantastic.’
[…] through the open door, now directly below his feet, and nearly cacked his breeks when the stretcher skidded slightly on the shiny metal floor.
Another distinction she reported: my brother once cacked his pants and responded with the words, "It will never happen again" – and it didn't, […]
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Just to let me know, to keep me on the move, to make me cack my pants for now an most likely for ever.
Hans Bach gave him a look, and he cacked his pants and hurried off.
To excrete (something) by defecation.
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He smelled the ferrous oxide of blood and the farmyard stench of shit. He'd cacked it. He was empty and he'd cacked his load. The brushman came over, lisping slightly[…]
To kill.
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He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.
Stay, by your leave I will put in a distinguo; your goose has cacked.
To cheat.
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Thus was I then to lose my faithfull preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession: for besides that she never ransacked her customers, whose taste too she ever studiously consulted, she never cacked her pupils with unconscionable extortions, nor ever put their hard earnings, as she called them, under the contribution of poundage.
Noun
An act of defecation.
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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 cack.
Excrement.
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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.
" And have bird cack on their heads , " Jacques agreed cheerfully, to Ash's relief.
Rubbish; anything worthless.
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'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.'
At first, he genuinely didn't recognize her without all that high-gloss cack on her face.
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Not thinking, because he's got it in his hand, he wipes her mouth with the dirty dishcloth – leaves a little bit of cack on her lips, but she doesn't notice .
“This building. Eesh! Still sends shivers through my bones.” “Last time we were here we were sentenced to death by the Vampiric Council.” “Had we not escaped from this cack house...” “I saved them.” “We saved them.” “Had we not escaped from this fluorescent mausoleum, we'd be fucking dead.”
Or super fit cycle/running bods who won't let me lie like a bag of cack on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon.
Noun
Penis.
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Noun
An inexpensive boot or shoe made in the 19th or early 20th century for a baby or young child.
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To one handling shoes, from cacks to footwear for the oldest men and women , and taking into consideration the trade as it is handled at large not simply in our city , the universally ac- knowledged metropolis of the world , I desire to say that to my mind there is more fakism used to sell shoes than to sell any other necessary article.
Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts.
In the cacks for infants I noticed a tasty little patent leather foxed with cloth top, an ox blood slipper with dainty bow, and then there are others with green cloth tops, Scotch plaids and vesting tops in a great variety of combinations.
A young child.
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Ma is calling breakfast. The little cacks are up. Billy, who is only six –and you are eight! –Billy tried to wash himself and got some soap in his eyes. Funny that little cacks like that always get soap in their eyes!
Seniors bully cacks because they were bullied as cacks. Old boys who were miserable here send their sons here to make them miserable. It's called tradition.
Even fresh Cacks with some prowess on the rugby or cricket field are likely to get it slightly easier than their quivering peers.