2006-11-24 10:48:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I believe it's a Dutch word. Meaning shite.
2006-11-24 10:50:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Oxford English Dictionaty says that "cack" is an obsolete or dialect (1) noun meaning faeces, and (2) verb meaning to void excrement. Its history is given as probably Latin cacare, whence Middle Dutch kakken, early modern German kacken and modern Dutch kakke - all verbs, whose meaning I'm sure you can guess. Earliest recorded English use was in 1436.
Can also mean a privy, apparently.
The expression "a cackhanded way of doing it" (meaning clumsy) is quite common here in Northern England, but now you have prompted me to look it up, I will remember only to use it to people who are smaller than me. Thanks!
2006-11-24 21:09:04 · answer #2 · answered by andrew f 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when some people say it means to pass bowels / defaecate it is interesting. My husband laughed one day when I heard the word "cac" and I told him in Afrikaans (which is directly derived from Dutch) which is my second mother tongue, English being my first...I said to him the word "kak" in AFrikaans means to pass bowels or to defaecate however, it is a slang term which literally means "crap". It is not polite to use. AFrikaans is a pidgeon language made up of other languages of which English, Dutch, French etc are included. HOpe this helps.
2006-11-26 01:20:18 · answer #3 · answered by Wisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "cack" is a heelless shoe for infants. "Cac" is Greek for bad.
2006-11-24 10:54:05 · answer #4 · answered by ladyofcountry65 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking at the previous answers, it seems like there's cack everywhere.
2006-11-24 11:10:27 · answer #5 · answered by Dava 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is from the Latin word cacare, meaning defecate. The word "caca" is used today for excrement in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
2006-11-25 08:47:55 · answer #6 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is an old celtic word for bad
2006-11-24 10:50:44 · answer #7 · answered by michael p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kakos, Greek for bad!
2006-11-24 10:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a welsh word for poop/dirty
cachy mochyn- dirty pig!...lol
2006-11-24 10:51:36 · answer #9 · answered by madmoo0 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin verb cacare=to defecate
2006-11-24 10:51:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋