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Definition: GECK |
GECKIntransitive verb1. To jeer; to show contempt. Noun1. To cheat; trick, or gull. 2. To deride; to scorn; to mock. 3. An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull. 4. Scorn, derision, or contempt. |
Date "GECK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
"GECK" is a common misspelling or typo for: gecko, geckos, geek. |
Crosswords: GECK |
| Non-English Usage: "GECK" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (attitudinizer, buck, Dandy, dude, fop, Peacock, popinjay, poseur). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GECK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Geck | Last name | 170 | 47,323 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
davis geck sherwood | 19 |
geck | 10 |
davis geck | 9 |
geck willi | 3 |
geck willie | 2 |
davis geck suture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GECK": gecked, gecking, gecko, geckoes, geckos, gecks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GECK" (pronounced je"k) |
| 2 | -e" k | Beck, bedeck, check, deck, Exec, feck, Fleck, heck, Keck, Lech, lek, neck, pech, Peck, rec, recheck, reck, sec, spec, speck, trek, wreck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-k" | |
-1 letter: keg. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-k" | |
+1 letter: gecko, gecks. | |
+2 letters: gecked, geckos. | |
+3 letters: becking, corkage, decking, dockage, gecking, geckoes, geoduck, grackle, gweduck, jackleg, kecking, lockage, necking, package, pecking, recking. | |
+4 letters: blackleg, blockage, brockage, checking, cheeking, cleeking, clerking, corkages, creaking, deckings, dockages, flecking, gamecock, gavelock, gemsbuck, geoducks, giveback, grackles, gweducks, heckling, jacklegs, keckling, lockages, magicked, megabuck, neckings, packaged, packager, packages, ringneck, specking, trackage, truckage, wreckage, wrecking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 45 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -.-. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01000101 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G E C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0045 0043 004B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41393745 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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