German

Noun

Geck m ‎(genitive Gecken or Gecks, plural Gecken)

1. (somewhat dated) dandy, poser (vain, narcisstic man)

Usage notes

• The word can be declined according to the weak or the strong pattern. The former is more originally standard, but the latter is also found.

Declension

Weak declension

Strong declension

Synonyms

• Lackaffe
• Fatzke
• Poser (youth slang)

Luxembourgish

Noun

Geck m ‎(plural Gecken)

1. (pejorative) madman, lunatic, maniac
2. fool, crackpot

English

Noun

geck ‎(plural gecks)

1. scorn; derision; contempt
2. (archaic, pejorative) Fool; idiot; imbecile
   • Shakespeare

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

   • 1859, George Eliot, “IX Hetty's World”, in Adam Bede, HTML edition, published 2010:

     … 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?

Verb

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

1. To jeer; to show contempt.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

2. To cheat or trick.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia