Geck

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Geck.

Proper noun

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Geck (plural Gecks)

  1. A surname from German.

Statistics

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  • 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.

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German

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ɡɛk/, [ɡɛkʰ]
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Noun

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Geck m (weak or strong, genitive Gecken or (uncommon, nonstandard) Gecks, plural Gecken or (uncommon, nonstandard) Gecke, diminutive Geckchen n)

  1. (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[1], 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

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  • 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

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Noun

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Geck m (plural Gecken)

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