gek — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bonkers adj Crazy, wild, or absurd.
- crazy adj Mentally unstable or irrational; behaving in a wild or nonsensical way.
- daft adj Foolish, silly, or lacking good sense.
- gig noun A single performance booking for a musician or entertainer.
- loon noun A diving water bird known for its haunting, wailing call, found in North America and northern Europe.
- lunatic noun A person regarded as insane or wildly irrational (now considered old-fashioned and offensive as a clinical term).
- mad adj Angry or annoyed.
- madman noun A man who behaves in an insane, irrational, or extremely reckless way.
- nut noun A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.
- nuts adj Informal: crazy, irrational, or wildly excited.
- silly adjective Foolish or lacking good sense; done or said in a way that invites laughter.
Senses
gek is used for these senses in English:
- bonkers (informal, especially, Britain) Mad; crazy.
- crazy Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.]
- daft (chiefly, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Crazy, insane, mad.
- gig (chiefly, Britain, school slang, _, (Eton College), archaic, or) A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
- loon (slang) A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.
- lunatic An insane person.
- mad (chiefly, British Isles) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
- madman A man who is insane or mentally disturbed.
crazy — full definition
- adj Mentally unstable or irrational; behaving in a wild or nonsensical way.
- adj Informal: extremely enthusiastic about or infatuated with someone or something.
- noun Informal: an eccentric or irrational person.