moakley@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 5 days agoA Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Jokelemmy.worldimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageA Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Jokelemmy.worldmoakley@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareTanis Nikana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days ago gekkering I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.
minus-squareSteveXVII@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoIt almost is, it would translate as ‘crazy ring’.
minus-squaremoakley@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days 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-up0·4 days 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-up0·4 days agoThere’s also an audio file for gekkering but that’s the pronunciation for the word, not the actual example…
I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.
Looks like a Dutch word
It almost is, it would translate as ‘crazy ring’.
It is
It really does.
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…