cank
Pronunciations
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/kæŋk/
Noun
Gossip, chatter.
Usage- UK usage
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- dialectal
- Uncountable
A chat.
Usage- UK usage
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- dialectal
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A gossip, tell-tale.
Usage- UK usage
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The cry of a goose.
Usage- UK usage
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A fit of ill-humour.
Usage- UK usage
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- dialectal
- Uncountable
Verb
To gossip, prate, chatter.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
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More examples (1)
He said that what he had told me wasn't meant to be repeated again, and I ought not to have gone canking it about, especially to the Rymers theirselves^([sic]); […]
To talk rapidly; gabble.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
To cackle, as geese.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
Word forms
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