Obs. or dial. [app. ad. L. cacā-re in same sense, whence also MDu. cacken, Du. kakken, early mod.Ger. kacken, Da. kakke; also Boh. kakati, Pol. kakać.]
1. intr. To void excrement.
1436. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 170. Wythoute Calise in ther buttere the cakked.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 58/1. Cakkyn, or fyystyn, caco.
c. 1500. Dunbar, Fenȝeit Frier, 101. Ffor feir vncunnandly he cawkit.
1570. Levins, Manip., 5. To cake, cacare.
1611. Cotgr., Chier, to cacke.
a. 1710. Pope, Alley, i. Some cack against the wall.
1731. In Bailey II.
2. trans. To void as excrement.
1485. Caxton, Trevisa’s Higden, IV. x. (1527), 158. One that hadde cacked golde.
1549. Cranmer, in Strype, Life (1694), App. 105. Because the Devil could not get out at his mouth, the man blew him, or cacked him out behind.
