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minus-squareTanis Nikana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·1 day ago gekkering I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.
minus-squaremoakley@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 day agoFun fact: I almost embarrassed myself and wrote “geckering”, but my wife corrected me at the last second. Geckering is how monkeys laugh. Foxes gekker.
minus-squareTanis Nikana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoAnd here I thought my English was pretty good, and I thought you just made this up! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gekker
minus-squareSoku@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoThere’s also an audio file for gekkering but that’s the pronunciation for the word, not the actual example…
minus-squareSteveXVII@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoIt almost is, it would translate as ‘crazy ring’.
I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.
Fun fact: I almost embarrassed myself and wrote “geckering”, but my wife corrected me at the last second.
Geckering is how monkeys laugh. Foxes gekker.
And here I thought my English was pretty good, and I thought you just made this up!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gekker
There’s also an audio file for gekkering but that’s the pronunciation for the word, not the actual example…
Looks like a Dutch word
It almost is, it would translate as ‘crazy ring’.
It is
It really does.