Definition of "cack" []

• A squawk. (noun)
• A discordant note. (noun)
• To squawk. (verb)
• To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended. (verb)
• To defecate. (verb)

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• "Several of the words used in Earl Sterndale are found in other dialects of the British Isles, such as cack-handed 'clumsy', chuntering 'mumbling disagreeably', and nous, 'common sense'."
• "Is this some kind of cack-handed attempt to stem the Lib Dem advances in Henley-on-Thames?"
• "If any one be carving awkwardly with the left wrist doubled under, the right arm angularly extended, and the knife sawing at a joint, our village miners and country Californians call it "cack -" or "cag-handed.""