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gecker

gecker noun: the series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.

Noun

gecker (plural geckers)

  1. The series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.

Verb

gecker (third-person singular simple present geckers, present participle geckering, simple past and past participle geckered)

  1. To make a series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.

Proper noun capitalized: Gecker

Gecker (plural Geckers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of gecker

Noun
pluralgeckers
alternative formgekker
Verb
third-person singular presentgeckers
present participlegeckering
past participlegeckered
pastgeckered
Proper noun
pluralGeckers

Origin of gecker

Coined by 1962, likely derived from Low German geck (“to mock, cackle”) from related terms such as German gackern (“to cackle”) and German keckern (“to make angry noises [of an animal]”). The same call types had previously been referred to as types of keckern in German publications. Possibly also onomatopoeic from “ik, ik, ik.”

Questions about gecker

What does gecker mean?
Gecker means the series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.
What part of speech is gecker?
Gecker can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gecker?
The plural of gecker is geckers.

Words near gecker in the dictionary

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

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