geggee

English

Etymology

From gegg +‎ -ee.

Noun

geggee (plural geggees)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A victim of a hoax or trick.
    • 1864 January, John Strang, Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the City, During the Past and Present Centuries‎[1], page 337:
      The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast.
    • 2014 July 14, Florian Breit, “The Hunt for English Isograms”, in Florian Breit's Blog‎[2]:
      There are also a few examples of 3-isograms, such as deeded or geggee, but David was quite adamant that he did not know of any fourth-order isograms.

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