单词 | keckle |
释义 | kecklen. Scottish. (a) A short spasmodic laugh; a chuckle. (b) Cackling, chattering, etc. (Cf. cackle n. 3b.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > chuckling > instance of chuckle1743 keckle1820 cackle1856 chortle1903 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 260 Miss Becky Glibbans gave a satirical keckle at this. 1822 J. Galt Provost xii. 95 ‘I' gude faith,’ cried the Bailie, with a keckle of exultation, ‘here's proof enough now’. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xlvi. 321 A bit keckle o' a lauch. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kecklev.1 1. intransitive. Of a hen or other bird: To cackle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cluck or cackle cackle?c1225 keckle1513 chacka1522 shuckle1598 gallow1825 keck1844 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of hen) clockOE cacklec1230 chuckc1405 keckle1513 cluck1580 chuckle1690 clack1712 clucker1904 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 118 And kais keklis on the ruiff abone. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 Quhilk gart the hennis kekkyl. 1639 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline (ed. 2) cxi. 337 That will not take the libertie of a Hen to keckle over her owne egge. 1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) iv. 23 Whan the hens begin to keckle. 2. a. Of a person: To chuckle, laugh, giggle, checkle v. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > chuckle keckle1513 chuck1598 shuckle1598 cackle1712 chuckle1803 chortle1871 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. iv. 40 The Troianis lauchis fast seand hym fall, And, hym behaldand swym, thai keklit all. 1728 A. Ramsay Bob of Dunblane i For fainness, deary, I'll gar ye keckle. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. xi. 344 He keckled at his small joke very complacently. b. transitive. To utter with or express by chuckling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > utter with a chuckle chuckle out1820 keckle1857 chortle1871 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 104 ‘Ah, you're a wag, Sir’, keckled the old man. 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. ii. 58 Then she keckled a tiny laugh of supreme derision. Derivatives ˈkeckling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [adjective] > chuckling keckling1719 chuckling1837 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > chuckling chucking1598 chuckling1820 keckling1836 chuckle1837 1719 A. Ramsay 3rd Answer to Hamilton xv Gin ony..Ca' me conceited keckling chucky. 1790 Scots Songs II. 51 A keckling hen To lay her eggs in plenty. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xxi. 377 The laughing, and fistling, and keckling we heard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). kecklev.2 Nautical. transitive. To case a cable or hawser with rope in order to prevent chafing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > wrap (to prevent chafing) keckle1627 worm1706 pudding1711 graftc1860 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 30 To keckell or sarue the Cable, as is said, is..to bind some old clouts to keepe it from galling in the Hawse or Ring. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Keckle (in Navigation), to turn a small Rope about the Cable or Bolt-rope, when we fear the galling of the Cable in the Hawse. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 24 Keckling a hawser [is] serving it over with rope, which keeps it from being chafed. Derivatives ˈkeckling n. also concrete (see quot.). ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) When the cables gaul in the hawse..the seamen wind some small ropes about them; and this is called keckling. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Kaicling, or Keckling, a name given to any old ropes, which are wound about a cable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021). kecklev.3 dialect. = keck v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > retch bolk1495 retch1538 reach1575 heave1601 keck1601 to cast the gorge1614 keckle1619 yesk1664 strain1678 gag?1706 1619 W. Whately Gods Husbandry 72 The hypocrite..can swallow a Cammell with the same throat, which did euen keckle at a Gnat. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Keckle,..to make a noise in the throat when swallowing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1820v.11513v.21627v.31619 |
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