cank /kæŋk/noun 5verb 3forms 3 noun5 •(dialect, UK) Gossip, chatter. •(dialect, UK) A chat. •(dialect, UK) A gossip, tell-tale. •(dialect, UK) The cry of a goose. •(dialect, UK) A fit of ill-humour. verb3 •(dialect, UK) To talk rapidly; gabble. •(dialect, UK) To cackle, as geese. •(dialect, UK) To 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 formscanked · canking · canks
