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English
Etymology 1
Noun
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
Adjective
seck (comparative more seck, superlative most seck)
- Only used in rent seck
References
- “seck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SECK”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
seck
- Alternative form of sak