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geck

/ɡɛk/

geck noun: fool; idiot; imbecile.

Noun

geck (countable and uncountable, plural gecks)

  1. (archaic, derogatory, poetic) Fool; idiot; imbecile.
    • To become the geck and scorn / O' the other's villainy.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • … 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?1859, George Eliot, “IX Hetty's World”, in Adam Bede, HTML edition, published 2010, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2012

Verb

geck (third-person singular simple present gecks, present participle gecking, simple past and past participle gecked)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To jeer or mock; to show contempt for.
    • To say that ye was geck'd ye'se hae nae need.1812 [1768?], Ross Alexander, Helenore : or the fortunate shepherdess, a pastoral tale, page 92
    • And Jenny geck'd at Roger, […]1815, Robert Tannahill, Poems and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 59
  2. To toss (one's head) scornfully; to look (at) derisively or disdainfully.
    • ... The like o ' me they'll har'ly own , But geck their head , an ' gester on , An ' fou'd they speak , Set up their beek . They wi ' a jeer , or crabit frown , But yet the day or lang may light , Whan matters will be judged right ; We've[…]1793, Thomas Scott (of Paisley.), Poems, with Edwin and Catherine, or The distressed lovers, a tragedy, page 339
    • Out-throw the rest my aunty gecket, / To see which way she was dissecket;1801, William Beattie, Fruits of Time Parings: Being a Small Collection of Original Poems, Scotch and English: Composed to Fill Up a Few of the Author's Blank Hours - and Respectfully Offered to the...

Proper noun capitalized: Geck

Geck (plural Gecks)

  1. A surname from German.

geck meaning in Urdu

geck in Urdu

اہانت, حقیر سمجھنا, توہین کرنا, مذاق اڑانا

Examples of geck in a sentence

  • I brought her frae England, and, during our whole journey, she gecked and scorned at my northern speech and habit1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald...
  • She ... gecks at me , and says I smell o' tar.1828, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy. With Notes, and an Original Memoir of the Author, page 21:
  • Oh, geck na' at hame hodden grey, Jean Linn!1893, Robert Ford, The Harp of Perthshire: A Collection of Songs, Ballads, and Other Poetical Pieces Chiefly by Local Authors, page 163:
  • ... he was saying that to geck you're free, If now he sings upon the primrose […]1806, John Black, The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary Dissertations...

Forms of geck

Noun
pluralgecks
Verb
third-person singular presentgecks
present participlegecking
past participlegecked
pastgecked
Proper noun
pluralGecks

Origin of geck

From Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian/North Germanic meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat" (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gjække, Swedish gäcka).

Borrowed from German Geck.

Words formed from geck

Words that rhyme with geck

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Questions about geck

What does geck mean?
Geck means fool; idiot; imbecile.
What is geck in Urdu?
Geck in Urdu is اہانت, حقیر سمجھنا, توہین کرنا. See Geck meaning in Urdu.
How do you use geck in a sentence?
I brought her frae England, and, during our whole journey, she gecked and scorned at my northern speech and habit
What part of speech is geck?
Geck can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce geck?
Geck is pronounced /ɡɛk/.
What is the plural of geck?
The plural of geck is gecks.

Words near geck in the dictionary

  1. gecarcinians
  2. gecarcinid
  3. gecarcinids
  4. gecarcinucid
  5. gecarcinucids
  6. geck
  7. gecked
  8. gecker
  9. geckered
  10. geckering
  11. geckers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geck (page history and authors); Geck (page history and authors); geck (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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