Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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intj
Used to indicate laughter or humour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Topics: video-games
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name
Alternative form of Gheg.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A rut in a path.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
A swing or see-saw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Initialism of gasoline-equivalent gallon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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verb
To walk carelessly or in a careless manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, dialectal
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verb
To swing or see-saw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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History
From a corruption of kek, itself Borrowed from Korean ᄏᄏᄏ (keukeukeu, “haha”, representation of laughter).
Origin unknown. Probably from Middle English *geigen, from Old Norse geiga (“to deviate to the side, go the wrong way, rove at random”), from Proto-Germanic *gaigijaną (“to deviate, totter, transgress”), causative of *gīganą (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *gheyǵh-, *gheygh- (“to gape, protrude”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhēy(w)-, *ǵhyāw- (“to yawn, gape”); related to Old English *gǣġan (“to go, walk, pass by”), as in forgǣġan (“to transgress, trespass, prevaricate, pass by, neglect, omit”), ofergǣġan (“to transgress”). Cognate also with Old Frisian gēia (“to overstep, exceed”), Norwegian dialectal geige (“to sway back and forth”), Middle High German gīgen (“to play the violin”), Old English gǣnan (“to gape”). More at jig.
