Geck
See also: geck
English edit
Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Geck (plural Gecks)
- A surname from German.
Statistics edit
- 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 edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Geck”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25.
German edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
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[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; […]
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Usage notes edit
- 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.
Declension edit
Declension of Geck [masculine, weak // strong]
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Geck” in Duden online
- “Geck” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Geck” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Luxembourgish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Geck m (plural Gecken)