Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gegg

/ɡɛɡ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gegg
IPA: /ɡɛɡ/

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A trick or hoax.

Archaic

verb

To trick or hoax.

Archaic; Transitive verb

name

A surname from German.

Example Sentences

"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, […]"
"The whole gist of the gegg was to be here."

Etymology

Borrowed from South German Gegg, a variant of Geck.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Gegg

Usage

Inflected Forms

geggs (plural) geggs (present, singular) gegging (participle, present) gegged (participle, past) gegged (past)

Derived Forms

geggery geggee gegger

Homonyms

gheg

Rhymes With

leg egg greg beg reg meg peg gregg clegg keg neg segue

Questions

How do you pronounce gegg?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡɛɡ/.
What does gegg mean?: A trick or hoax.
Where does gegg come from?: It is traced to German.

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