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名詞

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, 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:

     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.

参照

• “geggee, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.