English Explanatory Dictionary

cank

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Gossip, chatter.
  2. A chat.
  3. A gossip, tell-tale.
  4. The cry of a goose.
  5. A fit of ill-humour.
verb
  1. To gossip, prate, chatter.
  2. To talk rapidly; gabble.
  3. To cackle, as geese.

Pronunciation

/kæŋk/

Word forms

cank canks canking canked

Etymology

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”).

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