• IPA: /ɡɛk/

geck

1. scorn; derision; contempt
2. (archaic, pejorative, poetic) Fool; idiot; imbecile
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance)​, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iv]:

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

geck (gecks, present participle gecking; past and past participle gecked)

1. (ambitransitive) To jeer; to show contempt for.
2. To cheat or trick.