geck

• “Now Organic's head tech geck, the 26-year-old is one of the leading forces behind making seamless multimedia on the Web accessible to anyone, regardless of browser type or connection speed.”

  Newsweek: The Net 50

• “The goal of the Getting Gross Club pronounced geck was to offend without going over the line.”

  Schmooze « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts

• “Don't be a geck, Toby, I've held much worse between my legs.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “Indeed, they made such a noise, that the great ugly black snakes lifted up their heads, and stared at them with their wicked spiteful-looking eyes, and the little ducklings swimming among the water-lilies gathered round their mother, and a red-winged blackbird perched on a dead tree gave alarm to the rest of the flock by calling out, _Geck_, _geck_, _geck_, as loudly as he could.”

  In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada

• “When Swiss plan a cozy party, they add "FIGUGEGL" (fee-GOO-geck-ul) to the invitation - "Fondu isch guet und git e gueti Lune" ("Fondue is good and gives a good mood").”

  SFGate: Top News Stories

• “This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German.”

  Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs

• “The root geck still survives in Dutch and Afrikaans gek: crazy, as well as some German dialects, and in the Alsatian word Gickeleshut: geek's hat, used in carnivals.”

  Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs

• “BAYTRIL 4 arthiritis in jts 4 leo geck & after 2nd day of dose has not mov'd any advise?”

  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions

• “When they are about to descend upon a field of oats or wheat, two or three mount guard as sentinels, and on the approach of danger, cry _Geck-geck - geck_; this precaution seems a work of supererogation, as they are so saucy that they will hardly be frightened away; and if they rise it is only to alight on the same field at a little distance, or fly up to the trees, where their look-out posts are.”

  The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America

• “I allays said I’d never marry a man as had got no brains; for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a - laughing at?”

  Adam Bede

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