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- verb Present participle of
keck .
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Examples
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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.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746
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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.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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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.
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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“No, fegs, no! kecking mun, kecking mun, so hard as ever was futeball!
Westward Ho! 2007
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"No, fegs, no! kecking mun, kecking mun, so hard as ever was futeball!
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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