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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
seck (plural secks)
- (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Alternative form of sack
- 1884, David Grant, Lays and Legends of the North: And Other Poems and Songs, Humorous and Grave, Original and Translated, page 3:
- […] barn-fans, an' flails, an' fleers, / An' canasses, an' secks; / An' cheeks o' doors, an' doors themsel's, / Wi' broken ban's an' snecks; […]
- 1884, Streatfeild, Lin. and Danes, 264, 357:
- The kittlings ligging on the secks […]
- 1894, John Trafford Clegg, David's Loom: A Story of Rochdale's Life in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century, page 30:
- ... a rough seck undher him, a bit o' flannel hardly coverin' him above, an' he looked like dyeath.
- 1912 [????], Walter William Skeat, English dialects from the eighth century to the present day. Repr, page 117:
- This seck is elding to keep us fra starving!
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
seck (comparative more seck, superlative most seck)
- Only used in rent seck
References[edit]
- “seck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SECK”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
seck
- Alternative form of sak