cack
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cack
First recorded in 1890–95; of obscure origin
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John Gruber at Daring Fireball also suggests that the Mountain View crowd is buying the irony: “A few readers report that this ‘Scroogled’ cack is actually popular with… Google employees.”
From Forbes ● Nov. 21, 2013
And the prospect of sickly, overworked adolescents hoiking up their nightshirt and lunging for a bedpan with the words, "I need a cack."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013
Adapted with tin ear and cack hands from a French farce, Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton star as divorced parents of adoptive son Ben Barnes.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
Handedness: Usmanov or Moshiri allude to plenty of it by the board, specifically of the "cack" and "under" varieties.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2012
Knowed Bill when he was a little cack, knee-high to a grasshopper.
From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Wayne Whipple
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