cack

[ kak ]

noun

1. a soft-soled, heelless shoe for infants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cack¹

First recorded in 1890–95; of obscure origin

Example Sentences

In January, The West Wing’s Richard Schiff revealed that he had been having similar discussions with Sorkin about a revival of that show, and given the choice between rebooting a seminal work credited with elevating the entire medium of television or rebooting some dumb half-forgotten cack about a few journalists nobody cared about, chances are you’d also pick the former.

From The Guardian

If André Breton, the French poet who published the first “Surrealist Manifesto” in 1924, were alive to see what has happened to his lovely neologism, he would, as the English say, cack his pants.

From Wall Street Journal

Both of those terms have been used liberally by Trump’s critics in the past year or so, but kakistocracy … was that like a government of cack, as in dung?

From Seattle Times

You’ll go and meet the head ape and, despite your best attempts at finding common ground, your lunk-headed mate will end up committing some sort of relatively aggressive social faux pas and, next thing you know, all the apes are in tanks blowing the cack out of everything.

From The Guardian

One senior party figure has called the reshuffle "cack handed and vindictive".

From BBC