US /kæk/ UK /kæk/
noun verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    excrement; (verb, dialectal) to defecate

    The barn floor was thick with cack and old straw.

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Synonyms
1 noun · excrement; (verb,... excrementfecesdungdefecate
Word family
Derived forms cacky

Etymology

From Middle English cakken ('to void excrement'), of imitative or nursery origin, paralleled by Latin cacare and Greek kakkan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kakka- ('to defecate').

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