Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keckish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: keck-ish
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

having a tendency to retch or vomit

Example Sentences

"Inordinate passion of vomiting, called cholera, is nothing different from a keckish stomach and a desire to cast, but only according to augmentation."
""[…] If the queasie stomach must have the pills, they must be either guilded, that children may so please the eye as not to suspect the physicke, or sugard well, that the keckish palat may gulpe downe the cure before it feeles the sower.""
"He Was often confined in his bowels for which he had to take medicine; and as his stomach Was not at all keckish, antimon. tart. formed a considerable portion of his aperient."
"That on his forehead might be seen — He had not else so keckish been."

Etymology

From keck (“to retch”) + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: keck

Inflected Forms

more keckish (comparative) most keckish (superlative)

Questions

What does keckish mean?: having a tendency to retch or vomit
Where does keckish come from?: From keck (“to retch”) + -ish.

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