A Yorkshire dialect word with two vivid but unrelated senses: to jerk a limb or tilt the head sharply, or to cackle or laugh in a high, slightly grating way.
A Yorkshire dialect word with two vivid but unrelated senses: to jerk a limb or tilt the head sharply, or to cackle or laugh in a high, slightly grating way. The laughter sense is the more colorful one — a 'keak' is the kind of laugh that fills a room whether you want it to or not. Both uses are archaic but worth knowing as a piece of regional linguistic color.
She started to keak when she read the punchline, setting the whole table off.
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(Yorkshire) To jerk a limb or tilt the head.
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(archaic) To cackle or laugh.
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