"gegg" meaning in All languages combined

See gegg on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: geggs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gegg (plural geggs)
  1. (Scotland, archaic) A trick or hoax. Tags: Scotland, archaic Derived forms: geggery
    Sense id: en-gegg-en-noun-ej4zSDyB Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50

Verb [English]

Forms: geggs [present, singular, third-person], gegging [participle, present], gegged [participle, past], gegged [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} gegg (third-person singular simple present geggs, present participle gegging, simple past and past participle gegged)
  1. (Scotland, archaic, transitive) To trick or hoax. Tags: Scotland, archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-gegg-en-verb-VvWFUTUl Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geggs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gegg (plural geggs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "geggery"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832, The Day (issue 1, part 112, page 175)",
          "text": "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, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trick or hoax."
      ],
      "id": "en-gegg-en-noun-ej4zSDyB",
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "hoax",
          "hoax"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, archaic) A trick or hoax."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gegg"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geggs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gegging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gegged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gegged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gegg (third-person singular simple present geggs, present participle gegging, simple past and past participle gegged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To trick or hoax."
      ],
      "id": "en-gegg-en-verb-VvWFUTUl",
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "hoax",
          "hoax"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, archaic, transitive) To trick or hoax."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gegg"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "geggery"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geggs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gegg (plural geggs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832, The Day (issue 1, part 112, page 175)",
          "text": "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, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trick or hoax."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "hoax",
          "hoax"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, archaic) A trick or hoax."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gegg"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geggs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gegging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gegged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gegged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gegg (third-person singular simple present geggs, present participle gegging, simple past and past participle gegged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To trick or hoax."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "hoax",
          "hoax"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, archaic, transitive) To trick or hoax."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gegg"
}

Download raw JSONL data for gegg meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.