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Gegg

//ɡɛɡ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A trick or hoax. Scotland, archaic

    "Its meetings have long ceased, and it is only fair to hope that there be none of the young and gay spirits of Glasgow eager to revive so palpable a gegg as the one we have just recorded, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To trick or hoax. Scotland, archaic, transitive

Etymology

Borrowed from South German Gegg, a variant of Geck.

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