Geck vs Gick - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between geck and gick

is that geck is while gick is (ireland|slang) excrement [http://booksgooglecom/books?id=zicnnfvjrk8c&pg=pa242&dq=%22gick%22+paddy+clarke&hl=en&sa=x&ei=hswdt9yrpijhialb1mjpdg&ved=0cdcq6aewaq#v=onepage&q=%22gick%22%20paddy%20clarke&f=false irish essays ] by denis donoghue cambridge university press, 2011 p 242 isbn 978-1-107-00690-4.

geck

English

Noun

(en noun)

scorn; derision; contempt

(archaic, pejorative) Fool; idiot; imbecile

* Shakespeare

To become the geck and scorn / O' the other's villainy.

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, year=1859 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=George Eliot , title=Adam Bede , chapter=IX Hetty's World citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage= … for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at? }}

Verb

(en verb)

To jeer; to show contempt.

(Sir Walter Scott)

To cheat or trick.

(Johnson)

References

* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia * (Webster)

gick

English

Noun

(-)

(Ireland, slang) excrement Irish Essays by Denis Donoghue. Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-107-00690-4

* 1993 , Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha , Penguin Books, page 1:

If I did a gick in me pants he'd kill me! Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 978-1-440-67372-6.

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