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Gleek
Definitions
- 1 A once-popular game of cards played by three people. uncountable
"Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her."
- 2 A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
"Where's the Baſtards braues, and Charles his glikes: What all amort?"
- 3 A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing. slang
- 4 A fan of the television show Glee. slang
"I'm more of a Gleek myself."
- 5 Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind. countable
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- 6 An enticing glance or look.
"A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye:"
- 7 A stream of saliva from a person's mouth. informal
- 1 To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of. obsolete, transitive
"I have seen you gleeking and / galling at this gentleman twice or thrice."
- 2 To jest. intransitive, obsolete
"[…] that ſome honeſt neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleeke vpon occaſion."
- 3 To pass time frivolously. intransitive, obsolete
- 4 To discharge a long, thin stream of liquid (including saliva) through the teeth or from under the tongue, sometimes by pressing the tongue against the salivary glands. informal
"i just push the tip of my tongue against the roof of my mouth and saliva squirts out in a groovy little arc. i think you'd really have to see it to know what i am talking about. but you can gleek best right after chewing big red gum."
Etymology
From Middle French glic, from Old French glic (“a game of cards”), of Germanic origin from or related to Middle High German glücke, gelücke (“luck”) and Middle Dutch gelīc (“like, alike”). More at luck, like.
Related to Etymology 1. Of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *gleikr, leikr (“sport, play, game”), from Proto-Germanic *galaikaz (“jump, play”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. Cognate with Old English ġelācan (“to play a trick on, delude”), Scots glaik (“a glance of the eye, deception, trick”, n.), Scots glaik (“to trick, trifle with”, v.). More at lake.
Related to Etymology 1. Of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *gleikr, leikr (“sport, play, game”), from Proto-Germanic *galaikaz (“jump, play”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. Cognate with Old English ġelācan (“to play a trick on, delude”), Scots glaik (“a glance of the eye, deception, trick”, n.), Scots glaik (“to trick, trifle with”, v.). More at lake.
Blend of glee + geek.
Blend of Glee and geek
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