geg
/ɡɛɡ
/noun Northern Irish informal
1A person who is lively or entertaining company: your woman’s a geg...
- I'll tell you what that is: that is hilarious. You're a geg, d'you know that?
- She was a geg, and there was no fighting or no argument out of her.
- "You're a right geg, so you are," he said, then he repeated what I'd said and laughed.
1.1A source of fun, amusement, or derision: the show was such a geg tonight...
- I'm guessing that in a real-life emergency situation it's not quite such a geg.
- Uncle Andy will think it's a quare geg.
- We danced in front of the band—it was a geg.
Origin
Mid 19th century: alteration of gag2.
- betting slip
- Betti, Ugo
- bettong
- bettor
- be tuned in
- between
- between a rock and a hard place
- between jobs
- between ourselves (or you and me)
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- between you and me and the bedpost (or the gatepost or the wall)
- between you and me and the gatepost
- between you and me and the wall
- be twice the man/woman (that someone is)
- betwixt
- betwixt and between
- be two a penny
- be two (or ten) a penny
- beun
- be unable to believe one's eyes (or ears)
- be unable to hear oneself think
- be unable to (or be hardly able to) believe one's luck
- be unable to punch one's way out of a paper bag
- be unable to see the wood (or the forest) for the trees
- be under no illusion (or illusions)