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Ilk

//ɪlk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Very; same. Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable

    "By semblaunt, was that ilke image"

Noun
  1. 1
    A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

    ""Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]"

  2. 2
    a kind of person wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”). The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”). The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.

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