cack

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Onomatopoeia; see cackle.

From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), from Latin cacāre (“excrete feces”). Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).

From cock.

Of unknown origin. Possibly from Scots cack (“soft shoe”).

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: kakkaus — act of defecation
• German: Kacken — act of defecation
• Romanian: căcare — act of defecation
• Afrikaans: kak — excrement
• Albanian: kakë — excrement
• Arabic: ككة — excrement
• Armenian: քաք (kʻakʻ) — excrement
• Middle Armenian: քաք (kʻakʻ) — excrement
• Basque: kaka — excrement
• Breton: cac’h — excrement
• Cornish: caugh — excrement
• Dutch: kak — excrement
• Estonian: kaka — excrement
• French: caca — excrement
• Galician: caca — excrement
• German: Kacke — excrement
• Greek: κακά (kaká) — excrement
• Ancient Greek: κάκκη (kákkē) — excrement
• Hungarian: kaka — excrement
• Irish: cac — excrement
• Italian: cacca — excrement
• Krio: kaka — excrement
• Northern Kurdish: ek — excrement
• Northern Kurdish: ‘ey — excrement
• Latvian: kaka — excrement
• Lithuanian: kaka — excrement
• Macedonian: ка́ка (káka) — excrement
• Mauritian Creole: kaka — excrement
• Old English: cac — excrement
• Old Mazanderani: ککا (kakā) — excrement
• Pashto: ککه (kaká) — excrement
• Persian: ککه (kaka) — excrement
• Portuguese: caca — excrement
• Romanian: caca — excrement
• Romanian: căcat — excrement
• Russian: кака (kaka) — excrement
• Scottish Gaelic: cac — excrement
• Serbo-Croatian: ка́ка — excrement
• Serbo-Croatian: káka — excrement
• Spanish: caca — excrement
• Sranan Tongo: kaka — excrement
• Sranan Tongo: k'ka — excrement
• Turkish: kaka — excrement
• Welsh: cach — excrement
• Wik-Mungkan: kaka — excrement
• Finnish: kakka — rubbish
• Finnish: roska — rubbish
• German: Kacke — rubbish
• Armenian: քաքել (kʻakʻel) — to defecate
• Catalan: cagar — to defecate
• Dutch: kakken — to defecate
• French: chier — to defecate
• French: caguer — to defecate
• Galician: cagar — to defecate
• German: kacken — to defecate
• Ancient Greek: κακκάω (kakkáō) — to defecate
• Hungarian: kakil — to defecate
• Irish: cac — to defecate
• Italian: cacare — to defecate
• Italian: cagare — to defecate
• Northern Kurdish: ek kirin — to defecate
• Latin: cacō — to defecate
• Macedonian: кака (kaka) — to defecate
• Middle English: cakken — to defecate
• Occitan: cagar — to defecate
• Phuthi: káka — to defecate
• Portuguese: cagar — to defecate
• Romanian: căca — to defecate
• Russian: ка́кать (kákatʹ) — to defecate
• Scottish Gaelic: cac — to defecate
• Serbo-Croatian: ка́кити — to defecate
• Serbo-Croatian: kákiti — to defecate
• Sotho: kaka — to defecate
• Spanish: cagar — to defecate
• Welsh: cachu — to defecate