Geck

//ɡɛk//

"Geck" in a Sentence (12 examples)

To become the geck and scorn / O' the other's villainy.

… 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?

To say that ye was geck'd ye'se hae nae need.

And Jenny geck'd at Roger, […]

I brought her frae England, and, during our whole journey, she gecked and scorned at my northern speech and habit

She ... gecks at me , and says I smell o' tar.

Oh, geck na' at hame hodden grey, Jean Linn! Oh, geck na' at hame hodden grey!

... 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[…]

Out-throw the rest my aunty gecket, / To see which way she was dissecket;

... he was saying that to geck you're free, If now he sings upon the primrose […]

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... Adieu , my Liege ! may Freedom geck Beneath your high protection;[…]

... it set oor auld gossips a-geckin' Whan' the news o't cam' hame to auld Robbie Macmeeken.

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