单词 | keak |
释义 | † keakn. Obsolete. rare. A cackle, cackling. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > sound made by cacklingc1374 gagglingc1440 keak1600 cackle1674 canking1741 honk1813 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mad-cap (1626) B He..Must be attentiue to the Ganders keake, Or giue a plaudite, when the Goose doth speake. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Suppl. Kayk, the cry of a goose.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † keakv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To cackle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of goose) cacklec1230 gaggle1399 keak1545 gabble1712 honk1813 cank1879 honk-honk1896 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 16 Theues on a night had stolne Iupiter, had a gouse not a kekede. 1598 Herrings Tayle A ij Helpe sportfull Muse to tune my gander-keaking quill. 1621 J. Taylor Goose in Wks. (1630) i. 104/1 The sober Goose..did harshly keake and hisse. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. ii. 68 The Geese..take care that by their ceeking [1678 keeking] and their noyse, they doe not expose themselves to the rapacity of Birds of prey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1600v.1545 |
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