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noun
Gossip, chatter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A chat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A gossip, tell-tale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
The cry of a goose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A fit of ill-humour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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verb
To gossip, prate, chatter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
To talk rapidly; gabble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
To cackle, as geese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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History
From Middle English *cank (compare Middle English cang (“foolish"; also "fool”, adj and noun) > obsolete English cank (“dumb, stupid”)), from Old English canc, ġecanc (“scorn, jeering”), from Proto-West Germanic *kank, from Proto-Germanic *kanką (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *genǵ- (“to mock, insult”).
