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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ker-, - an unstressed syllable prefixed to onomatopoeic and other expressive words, usually forming adverbs or interjections:kerflop;kerplunk;ker-splosh.
Also, ca-, ka-. - Scots Gaelic cearr wrong, awkward, left-handed (compare Middle Irish cerr crooked, maimed); vars. without r probably reflect forms in r-less dialects
- Scots dialect, dialectal car-, cur-, currie- (as in carfuffle, carwhuffle to disarrange, carnaptious irritable, curriebuction a confused gathering, etc.), based on car, earlier ker left (hand or side)
- perh.
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