gegg

See also: Gegg

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛɡ/

Noun

gegg (plural geggs)

1. (Scotland, archaic) A trick or hoax.
   • 1832, The Day (issue 1, part 112, page 175)

     Its meetings have long ceased, and it is only fair to hope that there be none of the young and gay spirits of Glasgow eager to revive so palpable a gegg as the one we have just recorded, […]

   • 1864 January, John Strang, Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the City, During the Past and Present Centuries‎^[1], page 341:

     The whole gist of the gegg was to be here.

Derived terms

• geggery

Verb

gegg (third-person singular simple present geggs, present participle gegging, simple past and past participle gegged)

1. (Scotland, archaic, transitive) To trick or hoax.

Derived terms

• geggee
• gegger

References

• “gegg, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.