Word Confusion: Sac vs Sack vs Sacque

Plural for the noun: sacs
Plural for the proper noun: Sac, Sauk

Plural for the noun: sacks
Gerund: sacking

Third person present verb: sacks
Past tense or past participle: sacked
Present participle: sacking

Plural: sacques

[British] Special Area of Conservation

[British; RAF] Senior Aircraftman or Senior Aircraftwoman

Adjective:
Relating to the Sac/Sauk or their language ³

Noun:
A hollow, flexible structure resembling a bag or pouch ²

• A cavity enclosed by a membrane within a living organism, containing air, liquid, or solid structures
• The distended membrane surrounding a hernia, cyst, or tumor

Proper noun:
[More popularly Sauk] A member of an American Indian people inhabiting parts of the central US, formerly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, now in Oklahoma and Kansas ³

The Algonquian language of the Sac/Sauk

• The contents of a sack or the amount it can contain

[Also sack dress] A woman’s short loose unwaisted dress, typically narrowing at the hem, popular especially in the 1950s

• [Historical] A woman’s long loose gown
• A decorative piece of dress material fastened to the shoulders of a woman’s gown in loose pleats and forming a long train, fashionable in the 18th century
• [Informal; the sack] Dismissal from employment

[Chiefly North American; informal; the sack] Bed, especially as regarded as a place for sex

[Informal; baseball] A base

[American football] An act of tackling a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a pass

The pillaging of a town or city ²

[Historical] A dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canary Islands ³

[Fashion; menswear; sack jacket] A design detail that reduces the number of back panels of a man’s jacket or coat, creating a straighter hang ⁴

Verb, transitive:
[Informal] Dismiss from employment ¹

[American football] Tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a pass

[Rare] Put into a sack or sacks

[Chiefly in historical contexts] Plunder and destroy (a captured town, building, or other place) ²

A woman’s full, loose, hip-length jacket

A bag, especially one made of strong material for holding grain or objects in bulk

The amount that a sack can hold

As part of the EC Habitats Directive, SACs are areas which have been identified as best representing the range and variety within the European Union of habitats and (non-bird) species listed on Annexes I and II.

SAC (male) or SACW (female) is a rank in the Royal Air Force, ranking between leading aircraftman and senior aircraftman technician with a three-bladed propeller for the rank badge.

Adjective:
The conflict began in April 1832, encouraged by Black Hawk, a Sac/Sauk leader.

The Sac chief was the subject of the well-known paintings of George Catlin and the portrait by John Wesley Jarvis.

In the 1820s and 1830s, the Cherokee, Choctaw, Sac, Fox, Seminole, and Chickasaw nations, deprived of European allies, faced expulsion from the eastern half of the continent.

Noun:
I’d never seen a fountain pen with an ink sac.

Rain Reviva is a system of flexible plastic sacs for storing rainwater — or recycling waste water — under the house.

As the air filled the sac, the balloon took on an impossibly long shape.

If the term bladder turns you off, you can always refer to it as a sac.

Fish make the popping noises by sending air through different chambers of their swim bladders, the inflatable sacs that help fish float.

If the leak persists or the aneurysmal sac enlarges, intervention becomes necessary.

As people get older, fluid-filled sacs, called cysts, can form in the kidneys.

Proper noun:
The Sac (more commonly referred to as the Sauk), a North American Indian tribe closely related to the Fox and the Kickapoo, were first encountered by the French in 1667 (Editors).

Mesquakie (spoken by the Meskwaki, a.k.a., Fox) and Sauk (spoken by the Asakiwaki, a.k.a., Sac) are two dialects in the Mesquakie-Sauk Algonquian language (Native).

I thought you might need another sack of flour.

“Sack dresses are cozy and comfy and sort of like wearing nothing at all, because they require little thought or care (Keating).

“This strait-bodied city attire will stir a courtier’s blood, more than the finest loose sacks the ladies use to be put in” (Jonson).

The sack-back dress, a.k.a., a sacque or robe à la française, was often seen in the works of the great painter Antoine Watteau.

Poor Henry. He’s always bringing a sack lunch.

He got the sack for swearing.

They were given the sack.

Let’s hit the sack, baby.

He never hits the sack before midnight.

Second base is also known as the keystone sack.

A sack is not charged if there was a forward-pass attempt subsequent to the fumble.

They gave sack to the town.

Do you remember that movie about the sack of Troy?

I’ve heard that Lord Finley has a very nice sack.

The sack of Shakespeare’s time is very likely today’s sherry.

Using a sack cut on the jacket makes it quicker to assemble.

Verb, transitive:
Any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot.

Oregon intercepted five of his passes and sacked him five times.

A small part of his wheat had been sacked.

They sacked the countryside, burning crops, towns, and villages.

The woman had left her watch in her sacque that morning.

Stuff that sacque as full as it can hold.

It’s a sacque-full.

1. Assorted.
2. Mid-18th century (as a term in biology) is from the French sac or the Latin saccus meaning sack, bag.
3. From the French Canadian Saki, which is from the Ojibwa osākī.

   Neighboring tribes referred to the Sac/Sauk by the exonym Ozaagii(-wag), which the French translated as Sac and the British translated as Sauk.

1. Old English sacc is from the Latin saccus meaning sack, sackcloth, from the Greek sakkos, which is of Semitic origin.
   • The verb, meaning to dismiss someone, dates from the mid-19th century.
2. Mid-16th century from the French sac, as in the phrase mettre à sac meaning put to sack, on the model of the Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder.
3. Early 16th century, from the phrase wyne seck, which is from the French vin sec meaning dry wine.
4. France, in the mid-1800s, a style of cutting that reduced the number of panels in the back of a man’s jacket, causing the drape of the jacket to be straighter (Raivio).