A trick, practical joke, or deceptive ruse, especially in Scottish and Northern English dialects.
From Old Norse or Middle English dialectal roots, possibly related to 'gag' or 'jig', originally meaning a playful deception or performance.
Scottish dialect words like 'gegg' are linguistic time capsules—they preserve Viking-age words that died out in standard English but survived in remote communities, making dialect speakers living dictionaries of history.
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