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Definition of "kecking" []

  • Present participle of keck. (verb)

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Use "kecking" in a sentence
  • "Of small practice were the physician who could not judge by what she and her sister have of long time vomited, that the worser stuff she strongly keeps in her stomach, but the better she is ever kecking at, and is queasy; she vomits now out of sickness; but before it will be well with her, she must vomit with strong physic."
  • "Of small practice were the physician who could not judge, by what she and her sister have of long time vomited, that the worser stuff she strongly keeps in her stomach, but the better she is ever kecking at, and is queasy; she vomits now out of sickness; but, before it will be well with her, she must vomit by strong physick."
  • "In another part of his Treatise too I fancy I find the _Hypocrite_ a great deal more than the _Moralist_, and that is, in his kecking at a word in one place, and gobbling it up in another."
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