Geggee

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A victim of a hoax or trick. Scotland, archaic

    "The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast."

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"The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast."

Etymology

From gegg + -ee.

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