gekker

Meaning

Verb

• To make a series of stuttering throaty vocalizations in the manner of foxes when encountering a rival.

Origin

• Coined by Scottish zoologist and conservationist David Macdonald in the 1970s, who said in 2014 of gekkering: "I believe it comes from the German word gekkern, and I adapted it, and is probably onomatopoeic".