seckle

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verb

To settle down, relax.

OriginJamaican Creole sekkle ← English settle →
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Meanings

verbseckle (third-person singular simple present seckles, present participle seckling, simple past and past participle seckled)

present singular third person seckles · participle present seckling · participle past seckled · past seckled

  1. Multicultural London EnglishintransitiveslangtransitiveAfrican-American VernacularTo settle down, relax.

    I don't know why you even bothered and got my hopes up / Bitch, I should've just seckled and kept my love gun in my holster

    2015 July 1, Manga Saint Hilare, “Current Mood”
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    Gotti kisses his teeth and says I only took a little bud. A little bud? Are you mad? I still had half my fucking draw left, don’t try take me for some dickhead and Gotti says seckle yourself and stop shouting man.

    2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 177

Origin

  1. Englishsettle
  2. Jamaican Creolesekkle
  3. Englishseckle

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole sekkle, from English settle.

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APA

seckle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seckle

MLA

“seckle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seckle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “seckle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seckle.

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