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"3": "",
"4": "to deign, condescend"
},
"expansion": "German geruhen (“to deign, condescend”)",
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},
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"1": "is",
"2": "rækja",
"3": "",
"4": "to care, regard, discharge"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”)",
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"2": "røgte",
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"4": "to care, tend"
},
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"2": "rykta",
"3": "",
"4": "to groom"
},
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care, take care”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēǵ-, *rēg- (“to care, help”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch roeken, Low German roken, ruken (“to reck, care”), German geruhen (“to deign, condescend”), Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”), Danish røgte (“to care, tend”), Swedish rykta (“to groom”).",
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"ref": "1822, John E. Hall, editor, The Port Folio, volume XIV",
"text": "Little thou reck'st of this sad store!\nWould thou might never reck them more!",
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},
{
"ref": "1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 136",
"text": "She recks not now, as of old, whether her word carries with it the sting or the sweet—it is not now in her thought to ask whether pain or pleasure follows the thoughtless slight or the scornful pleasantry. The victim suffers, but she recks not of his grief.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1900, Ernest Dowson, Villanelle of Marguerite's, lines 10–11",
"text": "She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall\nWith voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]",
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}
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"To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard."
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"(transitive, intransitive, intransitive, archaic) To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard."
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"text": "Hit ne recketh! (= It recks not!)",
"type": "example"
}
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"To concern (someone); to be important or earnest."
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"important",
"important"
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[
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"(transitive, intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern (someone); to be important or earnest."
],
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"glosses": [
"To think."
],
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"links": [
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"think",
"think#Verb"
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To think."
],
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"ipa": "/ɹɛk/"
},
{
"homophone": "rec"
},
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"homophone": "wreck"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛk"
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"English terms inherited from Middle English",
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"Rhymes:English/ɛk",
"Rhymes:English/ɛk/1 syllable"
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"expansion": "Low German roken",
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"4": "to reck, care"
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"3": "",
"4": "to deign, condescend"
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"3": "",
"4": "to care, regard, discharge"
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"expansion": "Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”)",
"name": "cog"
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{
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"2": "røgte",
"3": "",
"4": "to care, tend"
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "to groom"
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"ref": "1822, John E. Hall, editor, The Port Folio, volume XIV",
"text": "Little thou reck'st of this sad store!\nWould thou might never reck them more!",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 136",
"text": "She recks not now, as of old, whether her word carries with it the sting or the sweet—it is not now in her thought to ask whether pain or pleasure follows the thoughtless slight or the scornful pleasantry. The victim suffers, but she recks not of his grief.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1900, Ernest Dowson, Villanelle of Marguerite's, lines 10–11",
"text": "She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall\nWith voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]",
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"To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard."
],
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"(transitive, intransitive, intransitive, archaic) To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard."
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"To concern (someone); to be important or earnest."
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"(transitive, intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern (someone); to be important or earnest."
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"To think."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To think."
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