▪ I. cack, v. Obs. or dial.
(kæk)
[app. ad. L. cacā-re in same sense, whence also MDu. cacken, Du. kakken, early mod.Ger. kacken, Da. kakke; also Boh. kakati, Pol. kakać.]
1. intr. To void excrement.
| 1436 Pol. Poems (1859) II. 170 Wythoute Calise in ther buttere the cakked. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 58/1 Cakkyn, or fyystyn, caco. c 1500 Dunbar Fenȝeit Frier 101 Ffor feir vncunnandly he cawkit. 1570 Levins Manip. 5 To cake, cacare. 1611 Cotgr., Chier, to cacke. a 1710 Pope Alley i, Some cack against the wall. 1731 in Bailey II. |
2. trans. To void as excrement.
| 1485 Caxton Trevisa's Higden iv. x. (1527) 158 One that hadde cacked golde. 1549 Cranmer in Strype Life (1694) App. 105 Because the Devil could not get out at his mouth, the man blew him, or cacked him out behind. |
▪ II. cack, n. Obs. or dial.
[f. same source as prec.: used already in OE. in the comb. cac-h{uacu}s ‘latrina’.]
| c 1600 Timon v. v. (1842) 89 Hee hath a face like one's that is at cack. |
Hence ˈcacky a. dial. and slang, foul with excrement. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict.)
| 1937 Partridge Dict. Slang s.v. cack. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 407 ‘Don't you want to get married?’.. ‘Not bloody likely! Spend my life wiping snotty noses and cacky bums?’ |