Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Keek
A keek is a Scottish peep. Strangely close to the meaning suggested by Lorenzo. Perhaps it was too easy for some of my Brit word imps. Nevertheless, the meanings were fun and frivolous which is always a good thing. And you won't believe it, but Magdalene has scooped the poll again. You're on form this year Magdalene.
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The modern day version of a Keek is the computer Geek. Until the advent of the typewriter, a Keek described a person obsessed with quill pens and parchment. He/she would know all the pros and cons of using a blue tit feather compared to a peacock feather and would spend many hours writing spreadsheets of servants' pay and instruction scrolls on such things as how to set a dinner table etc.
Mrs Beeton was a typical Keek.
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Keeks is the Scottish name for the underwear men wear below their kilt.
Lorenzo.
It's me that leaves you strange balls of fluff all over the carpet.
Keek is the cry of a startled
Lesser Twite as it rises swifty from it's nest.
What is your earliest, probably childhood, recollection of a tractor? Or a frying pan? In most cases, our reaction to inanimate objects is rooted in such early, and often suppressed, memories. These objects have been 'keeked' to an emotional response. Indeed, our dreams are woven from such keeks: the slumbering mind casts about for imagery that is keeked to a strong emotion (sifting from the most recent imagery taken, and working backwards through time), searching for those objects that, through their keeks, represent a current fear or worry. Carl Jung observed: 'The truest order of thought lies in those invisible bonds that keek one's reality to one's extravagances.'
Keek is part of the English vocabulary of a Latin American footballer.
A keek is a sound that a new born baby makes since it cant talk.
Keek is what you'd be served for tea at Great Aunt Agatha's in Edinburgh.
Keek is a leafy green that tastes slightly like an onion. Though not precisely a cross between kale and leek, that's how the idea started, and the name stuck.
"Keek" is the sound made by a baby otter when it gets squashed by its big brother.
Keek is from Norse and has to do with walking on half-frozen land without landing in the wet parts.
A keek is the dessert you are given in Scotland once you have eaten your haggis. If you don't eat the haggis.... no keek.
To keek is to spit through your teeth. It really works when you have a large gap between your teeth.
A keek is a long, loud squeak, which some people make when they're very, very excited. You can never keek a word - it's always literally just "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!".
PS...sorry, just seen Magdalene's definition.... great minds think alike.... I will try and stay off the Scottish theme in future.
A keek is a prehistoric housecat most commonly found in the homecave of a Neanderthal couple. A single Neanderthal man would be ridiculed by the other Neanderthal men if he were to be living single and owned a keek.
Neanderthal Man #1: Me hear Gork have keek.
Neanderthal Man #2: Me think Gork no like ugg-ugg with the LaLa's.
Keek was the name given to the separation and jettisoning of the last booster of the old Apollo rocket as it went above the atmosphere into outer space, because of the sound that moved through the metal of the astronauts chamber when the separation occurred.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
[I liked solv's so much I can hardly consider voting elsewhere; just wanted to say...]
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