gleek
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gleek¹
- /ɡliːk/ UK, US
Rhymes with -iːk
Where it comes from
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.
noun gleeks · gleak
- A once-popular game of cards played by three people. Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.
- Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
gleek²
- /ɡliːk/ UK, US
Rhymes with -iːk
Where it comes from
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.
noun gleeks · gleak
- A jest or scoff; trick or deception. Where's the Baſtards braues, and Charles his glikes: What all amort?
- An enticing glance or look. A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye:
- A stream of saliva from a person's salivary glands. 1989, Craig Fraser, Deidre A. Sullivan, Burnt: A Teenage Addict's Road to Recovery […] the saliva glands to shoot a spray of water out of my mouth. A "gleek" looks like the spray from an orange when it's squeezed.
verb gleeks · gleeking · gleeked · gleak
- To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of. I have seen you gleeking and / galling at this gentleman twice or thrice.
- To jest. […] that ſome honeſt neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleeke vpon occaſion.
- To pass time frivolously.
- 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. 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.
gleek³
- /ɡliːk/ UK, US
Rhymes with -iːk
Where it comes from
Blend of glee + geek.
noun gleeks · gleak
- A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.
Gleek⁴
- /ɡliːk/
Where it comes from
Blend of Glee and geek
noun Gleeks
- A fan of the television show Glee. I'm more of a Gleek myself.
Translations
Every language
noun three of the same card in a hand
| Français | brelan |
|---|
noun jest or scoff
| Français | plaisanterie |
|---|---|
| Русский | насме́шка nasméška |
noun good fortune
| Español | ganga, bicoca, pichincha |
|---|---|
| Français | aubaine, bonne fortune, coup de pot, bonne affaire |
| Italiano | pacchia |
| Русский | уда́ча udáča |
verb to jest, ridicule, or mock
| Español | burlarse, tomar el pelo, huevear |
|---|---|
| Français | dauber, se ficher de, se foutre de |
| Italiano | prendere in giro |
| Русский | насмехаться nasmexatʹsja |
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title = {gleek},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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