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词汇 keck
释义

keck1

verb kɛkkek
[no object]informal
  • Feel as if one is about to vomit; retch.

    〈非正式〉恶心;作呕

    he stood there almost kecking from disgust
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • But before she could finish her sentence, she kecked into a white plastic bucket behind the contestants’ table.
    • 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.
    • I was actually kecking with him!
    Synonyms
    be sick, spew, spew up, fetch up

Origin

Early 17th century: imitative.

Rhymes

beck, bedeck, check, cheque, Chiang Kai-shek, crosscheck, Czech, deck, dreck, exec, fleck, heck, hitech, lek, neck, peck, Québec, rec, reck, sec, sneck, spec, speck, spot-check, tec, tech, Toulouse-Lautrec, trek, wreck

keck2

noun kɛkkek
British dialect
  • Cow parsley or a similar plant.

    〈方〉峨参(或类似的植物)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.

keck1

verbkek
[no object]informal
  • Feel as if one is about to vomit; retch.

    〈非正式〉恶心;作呕

    he stood there almost kecking from disgust
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • But before she could finish her sentence, she kecked into a white plastic bucket behind the contestants’ table.
    • I was actually kecking with him!
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    be sick, spew, spew up, fetch up

Origin

Early 17th century: imitative.

keck2

nounkek
British dialect
  • Cow parsley or a similar plant.

    〈方〉峨参(或类似的植物)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.

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