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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Geck.
Proper noun
Geck (plural Gecks)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Geck is the 35096th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 642 individuals. Geck is most common among White (83.49%) individuals.
Further reading
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German geck (“fool”). The same word has later been borrowed again from Ripuarian as jeck (“crazy”) and Jeck (“fool; carnival reveler”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Geck m (weak or strong, genitive Gecken or (uncommon, nonstandard) Gecks, plural Gecken or (uncommon, nonstandard) Gecke, diminutive Geckchen n)
- (derogatory, somewhat dated) dandy, fop, poser (vain, narcissistic man)
- Synonyms: Laffe, Stutzer, Zierbengel, (chiefly Austria, fashionable in the 1880s) Gigerl, (colloquial) Lackaffe, (colloquial, regional) Fatzke, (youth slang) Poser
1766, Christoph Martin Wieland, chapter 2, in Geschichte des Agathon, volume 1:Ich versichre dich, Hippias, meine Geduld reicht nicht mehr zu, alle Torheiten dieser abgeschmackten Gecken auszustehen, welche die Sprache der Empfindung reden wollen und nichts fühlen; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
- The word can be declined according to the weak or the strong pattern. The weak declension is standard and is the only one mentioned in dictionaries.
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Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
Noun
Geck m (plural Gecken)
- (derogatory) madman, lunatic, maniac
- fool, crackpot