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beck

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛk/

name

Etymology: * As a German surname, from Beck (“stream, brook”), see also Old Norse bekkr. Also a spelling variant of Becker (“baker”). * As a Hebrew surname, shortened from בני (B'nei) קדושים (Kdoshim, “sons of the martyrs”).

  1. A surname.

    “As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."”

  2. An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
  3. The River Beck, or The Beck, a minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which becomes the Pool River before joining the Ravensbourne.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”).

  1. Obsolete form of beak.

    “Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English bēcnan, bēacnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”). More at beacon.

  1. To nod or motion with the head.

    “When gold and silver becks me to come on.”

    “I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon.”