cank

plural canks

1. UKcountabledialectaluncountableGossip, chatter.
2. UKcountabledialectaluncountableA chat.
3. UKcountabledialectaluncountableA gossip, tell-tale.
4. UKcountabledialectaluncountableThe cry of a goose.
5. UKcountabledialectaluncountableA fit of ill-humour.

present singular third person canks · participle present canking · participle past canked · past canked

1. UKdialectalTo gossip, prate, chatter.

   He said that what he had told me wasn't meant to be repeated again, and I ought not to have gone canking it about, especially to the Rymers theirselves^([sic]); […]

   1880, Ellen Wood, Johnny Ludlow, volume 1, page 67

2. UKdialectalTo talk rapidly; gabble.
3. UKdialectalTo cackle, as geese.