someone despicable, scum · someone weak, spineless, insignificant, etc. · a disagreeable or pitiable (pity-evoking) animal (like "pitiful," but used as a generic invective towards disagreeable animals)
çekim: çoğul kräks · tamlayan kräks
köken: Deverbal from Old Swedish kræka (“to crawl”), possibly with the original sense "to curve" (and if so, related to krake and krok). Originally of smaller creeping or crawling animals, "lower" animals. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk krek.