Acting the ginett

I accused my daughter of acting the ginett this evening. My wife looked at me like I had two heads. Turns out she’d never heard the phrase. I presumed she was just out of the loop.

However, having stuck it in a couple of friend WhatsApp groups, it seems I’m the the outlier. No one else seems to have heard this phrase. It was a common refrain in my house growing up.

Am I the only one…? I haven’t a clue where it comes from, but just that it means being a bit of a messer (or at least that’s the context I use it in…).