@moakley to Comic Strips • 1 day agoA Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Jokeimagemessage-square31arrow-up1521arrow-down141cross-posted to: foxes
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minus-squareTanis Nikanalink27•1 day ago gekkering I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.
minus-square@moakleyOPlink17•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 Nikanalink9•21 hours agoAnd here I thought my English was pretty good, and I thought you just made this up! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gekker
minus-square@Sokulink3•18 hours 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 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…