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单词 reck
释义

reck

See also: Reck and Réck

English

Alternative forms

  • reak (obsolete)

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɛk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Verb

reck (third-person singular simple present recks, present participle recking, simple past and past participle recked or (obsolete) rought, raught)

  1. (transitive or intransitive, archaic) To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
      Ophelia:
      Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
      Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
      Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
      Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
      And recks not his own rede.
    • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 136:
      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.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], OCLC 560090630, part I [Telemachia], page 13:
      Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], [], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, OCLC 230729554, line 50:
      [] with that care lost
      went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse
      he recked not []
    • 1822, John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio, vol. XIV:
      Little thou reck'st of this sad store!
      Would thou might never reck them more!
    • 1900, Ernest Dowson, Villanelle of Marguerite's, lines 10-11:
      She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
      With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair []
  2. (transitive or intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern, to be important or earnest.
    Hit nerecketh! (= It recks not!)
    • 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, [], London: [] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, [], published 1646, OCLC 606951673:
      What recks it them?
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To think.
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
      My master is of churlish disposition,
      And little recks to find the way to heaven
      By doing deeds of hospitality.

Derived terms

  • reckful
  • reckless

Anagrams

  • KREC
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