keck1
/kɛk
/verb [no object] informal
Feel as if one is about to vomit; retch: he stood there almost kecking from disgust...
- He did appreciate the chickens again, though not to the point of kecking, and thought that any farm animal that made noise (notably a turkey and some pigs) was amusing.
- There's no reason to believe the president has any inclination to stop him from kecking up his verbal bile all over the office carpets again.
- I was actually kecking with him!
Origin
Early 17th century: imitative.
Rhymes
keck2
/kɛk/noun dialect
Cow parsley or a similar plant.Other names, such as the ugly "keck", or the ominous "devil's oatmeal" have less to recommend them....
- It sounds like cow parsley to me too, or possibly some sort of keck type thing.
Origin
Early 17th century: from earlier dialect kex (perhaps of Celtic origin), interpreted as plural.
- bystander
- bystreet
- byte
- by the book
- by the bye
- by the by (or bye)
- by the day
- by the dozen
- by the grace of God
- by the gross
- by the head
- by the minute
- by themselves
- by the numbers
- by the same (or that or this) token
- by the same token
- by the skin of one's teeth
- by the sweat of one's brow
- by the truckload
- by the way
- by-the-wind sailor
- by the yard
- Bytom
- bytownite
- by turns