Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To toss the head in derision or scorn, or from vanity or folly; deride; mock.
- To cheat; trick; gull.
- noun A fool; a dupe; a gull.
- noun Scorn; contempt; also, an object of scorn.
- noun A toss of the head in derision or from vanity or folly; hence, a taunt; a gibe.
- noun To play one a trick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To jeer; to show contempt.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To deride; to scorn; to mock.
- transitive verb obsolete To cheat; trick, or gull.
- noun Prov. Eng. Scorn, derision, or contempt.
- noun obsolete An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, pejorative
Fool ;idiot ;imbecile - verb To
jeer ; to showcontempt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
The Net 50 2008
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The goal of the Getting Gross Club pronounced geck was to offend without going over the line.
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"Don't be a geck, Toby, I've held much worse between my legs."
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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 Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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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 Rick Steves 2011
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This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German.
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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.
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BAYTRIL 4 arthiritis in jts 4 leo geck & after 2nd day of dose has not mov'd any advise?
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BAYTRIL 4 arthiritis in jts 4 leo geck & after 2nd day of dose has not mov'd any advise?
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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 Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
bkerr commented on the word geck
That's "Garden of Eden Creation Kit" to you.
December 13, 2006
qms commented on the word geck
Some cock may presume he's exec
With general permission to peck
But strutting your stuff
May not be enough
When the flock is aflutter with geck.
August 18, 2016