gecker

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noun

The series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.

OriginLow German geck →
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Meanings

gecker1

noungecker (plural geckers)

plural geckers · alternative gekker

  1. The series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.
verbgecker (third-person singular simple present geckers, present participle geckering, simple past and past participle geckered)

present singular third person geckers · participle present geckering · participle past geckered · past geckered · alternative gekker

  1. To make a series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.

Gecker2

proper nounGecker (plural Geckers)

plural Geckers

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Low Germangeck“to mock, cackle”
  2. Englishgecker

Coined by 1962, likely derived from Low German geck (“to mock, cackle”) from related terms such as German gackern (“to cackle”) and German keckern (“to make angry noises [of an animal]”). The same call types had previously been referred to as types of keckern in German publications. Possibly also onomatopoeic from “ik, ik, ik.”

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