gegg

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/ɡɛɡ/

noun

A trick or hoax.

OriginGerman Gegg →
Scrabble 7
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Meanings

gegg1

noungegg (plural geggs)

plural geggs

  1. ScotlandarchaicA trick or hoax.

    The whole gist of the gegg was to be here.

    1864 January 28, John Strang, Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the City, During the Past and Present Centuries, page 341
    1 more example

    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, […]

    1832, The Day (issue 1, part 112, page 175)
verbgegg (third-person singular simple present geggs, present participle gegging, simple past and past participle gegged)

present singular third person geggs · participle present gegging · participle past gegged · past gegged

  1. ScotlandarchaictransitiveTo trick or hoax.

Gegg2

proper nounGegg (plural Geggs)

plural Geggs

  1. A surname from German.

Origin

  1. GermanGegg
  2. EnglishGegg

Borrowed from South German Gegg, a variant of Geck.

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APA

gegg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gegg

MLA

“gegg.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gegg. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gegg,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gegg.

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