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geg
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A laugh; a joke; a person or situation that delivers one. A good night is a geg, and so is the mate who made it one.
Related to the craic but smaller and more specific: the craic describes the whole night, a geg is one of the bits you retell afterwards. A person can be a geg, a night can be a geg, and the retelling usually counts as one too. The best gegs come at somebody's expense, and that somebody is usually left scundered.
Geg in a sentence
Usually with "what a" or "pure" in front, and calling a person "a quare geg" is, in Northern Irish fashion, a high compliment.
The dog made it into the wedding speeches.
Granny won the quiz and gloated for a week.
He fell asleep in the photo booth. We kept the strip.
Common questions
What does geg mean?
A geg is a laugh: a joke, a funny person or a funny situation. "What a geg" approves of any of the three.
What does it mean if someone is a geg?
That they are good value: funny, game and worth having in the room.
Is geg the same as craic?
They are related. The craic describes the whole night; a geg is one of the bits you retell afterwards.
How do you use geg in a sentence?
"The quiz was a pure geg" or "he is a quare geg", which in Northern Irish fashion is a high compliment.
After a geg?
Mortified
The dignity-shredding party game.
Mortified is a party game built for exactly that. Your name lands on the screen, the room writes answers in secret, and the reveal does the rest. One person buys, the whole room plays.
Sorting a games night? The games night guide has a game for every room.
See also
- beezer /ˈbiː.zər/ adjective Excellent, brilliant. The kind of night that produces gegs.
- eejit /ˈiː.dʒɪt/ noun A fool, said with affection. Frequently the source of the geg.
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