Jeck
The word Jeck (from Middle Low German geck , see also English geek ) is an expression used in the Rhineland for fool . It can be both a noun and an adjective .
use
With Jeck people are called primary, the active carnival participate. Everyone who celebrates Carnival is a joke ; if he does this in a corps or a carnival society , he appears as a musician, speaker or dancer, so if he belongs to the organized carnival, then he is a carnivalist .
The word `` Karnevalsjeck '' is often used to distinguish it from strangers , because being jeck in the Cologne way of life is not limited to the fifth season of the year ; The Jeck doesn't take things and himself seriously and is always ready to turn the world a little upside down, to think outside the box. That makes him lovable, and so the term Jeck is to be understood as a compliment.
A jeck can also be a person who is believed to be mentally confused or mentally inept. It should be noted here that a jerky person is generally a harmless variant of the lunatic. Depending on the context, this term can be used from loving to reproachful to insulting. The Rheinische Kliniken Düren is popularly called Jeckeberg or Jeckes because it was originally located on a hill . The Jeck in knurled (Crazy in the Rain), for example, a mentally disturbed person who walks around in the rain and getting wet. The increase of this person is in turn the one in need (literally "victim" of rain gutter / gutter ), a madman who stands under the spout of the rain pipe and has become particularly wet. The noun can also be used in the sense of fan ( football jeck ).
The term halve Jeck does not mean a partially confused person, but is intended as an insult. The person is assumed to have only mental capacity for half a mentally confused person.
Winged words
"Every Jeck is different." - "Jet jeck simmer all." (We are all a bit jeck) - "Jeck, loss Jeck elans." (Jeck, let the other Jeck pass, in the sense of: Live and let live ), All Rhenish confessions to tolerance and forbearance towards the other, in the knowledge of one's own imperfection.
literature
- Renate Matthaei : The Cologne Jeck. On the carnival and laughter culture in Cologne. With a foreword by Hartmut Priess. Dabbelju, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-939666-11-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden - jeck - spelling, meaning, definition, synonyms, origin. Retrieved March 12, 2017 .