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What is the meaning of the word ketch?

'Keel' is a term you may encounter while sailing and racing on the Great Lakes.

'Ketch' refers to a sailing vessel with two masts and a keel.

Some references for your reading are: Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Ketch of a New Sail. The Ketch: a two-masted sailboat whose design has evolved little since the 17th century, except to incorporate the fore-and-aft rig rather than the more traditional fore-and-aft-on-deck rig. It was developed by the Swedes after the loss of the famous Kockum ketch in 1717 and named after the Swedish ketch "Kket", or "little keel".

Alfred Thayer Mahan: How I Became a Seagoer. I learned as much in our voyage as I ever knew. The first of us who made the salt water with what were able to carry away from that strange sea was a fellow of about fifteen, whose name I forget. He was a good-natured youth, simple and guileless as a little child. One day he said to his mother, and with an innocence which no man could surpass, "Mother, mother, when you go into that ship over there and you make room, don't put your foot down on my toe. That is naughty of you, mother." I heard of nothing more; it was many years after that before I met with another of the sort. It was not so much the fact that he was simple, or guileless, or good-natured, as that he had not yet begun to be hard.

What does kook mean in Urban Dictionary?

Kook.

n. A person who is weird, strange, crazy, and not normal. This is a very common Urban Dictionary definition for kook.

Kook can also be a reference to a person who is too sensitive. Someone who may be easily offended or who cannot take a joke. Or to someone who is crazy or weird. For example, if you say hey, that joke was a little mean, don't you think? Then the other person will probably reply, yeah, I'm so kook over that joke.

The Urban Dictionary T-Shirt. A kook (also called a kuke) is someone who is extremely eccentric, out of touch, and strange. The word comes from the English language. It's the opposite of a nerd.

Urban Dictionary Definition: Kook - someone who is out of touch with society. Extremely odd, crazy or strange.

Kook: a person who is different from the others, crazy, odd and generally bizarre; the kooks think he's the messiah; he's kooky, but I still like him. To use the term as an insult: You're the kook, and everyone knows it! or, in reply to someone using the term, Kook, you're so kooky. Origin. This word is from the middle english kocke, meaning "idiot, simpleton, dolt". This word is attested in Chaucer, around the 13th century.

Kokke means "simpleton" in Scandinavian languages. Kooks means "people of the Kck family in the Germanic tribe Schwabach" in German. It is also a member of the surname, eg, Fink, Schickie. The name refers to people of the O.Germanic tribe Schwaben, or Schwaben, whose king was named Koch.

Kooky originally meant "odd". The first recorded use of the word in this sense is from 1926.

Kookies was a term popularized by radio personality Willard Scott in 1932 and 1933 to describe radio listeners.

What is the origin of the word ketch?

Is it a name given to a small rowboat or a type of fishing boat?

It is not clear whether the words are two distinct names or one.

In his Dictionary of Americanisms, Noah Webster gives the following etymology of ketch: Perhaps from the Dutch keetch, a small boat, from Old High German kech, cognate with English chew or chew. The Oxford English Dictionary offers this as an explanation of the word ketch: from the Dutch ketch, or probably Scandinavian kjtch, small boat of any kind; perh. A corruption of keech (q.), used originally in the sense of the larger kind of boat, later that of the small. The word is perhaps rather Scandinavian than English. A ketch is here thought to be an outsize wherry (small boat).

The first and fourth senses given in the Dictionary of Americanisms seem to be consistent with what is being said above. The second and third senses are less certain.

In his book The First Dictionary of Americanisms, Noah Webster notes that the "Dutch" was originally kech, and states that the "keche" became keetch. In his etymological note at the bottom of the page, he writes, "A writer, however, has doubted the correctness of this account. He says that, 'having long employed sailors in New York,' he has never heard the word applied in that sense." But without mentioning the writer by name, Noah Webster refers to "Mr. Wood," the source of the doubt. Wood is not named in The First Dictionary of Americanisms, but a footnote to the entry for keetch includes the following note:

Mr. Wood, of New York, (as quoted in the Literary Gazette,) doubts the correctness of the word's history as above, and supposes it is from the Swedes, kaka. Mr. Wood is aware that his doubts are not generally entertained by the class of persons to whom the title of the dictionary is addressed.

The earliest reference to ketch as the word we know today is found in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1765). In Henry VI, part 2, act 2, scene 3, in an exchange between Richard III and Edmund Mortimer, Mortimer says, HENRY VI.