gekker

English

Etymology

Coined by Scottish zoologist and conservationist David Macdonald in the 1970s, who said in 2014 of gekkering: "I believe it comes from the German word gekkern, and I adapted it, and is probably onomatopoeic".[1]

Verb

gekker (third-person singular simple present gekkers, present participle gekkering, simple past and past participle gekkered)

  1. To make a series of stuttering throaty vocalizations in the manner of foxes when encountering a rival.

References

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