gleet
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gleet
- /ɡliːt/
Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
Old French glette.
noun glit
- Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
- Any slimy, viscous substance.
- A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhea. There was this Estella, a real drab, being given syph and gon and gleet by Augustus John, and Tommy has her living with him in that place of his in Earl’s Court and going to a doctor, nothing wrong with her actually but there might well have been, and he never touches her, you know.
verb gleets · gleeting · gleeted · glit
- To ooze, as gleet (noun sense); to flow in a thin, limpid humour. The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins.
- Of water: to flow slowly. [Water vapour bubbles] hit againſt the ſides of the more eminent and Mountainous Places, of the Globe, and by this Concuſſion are condenſed, and thus become heavier than the Air they ſvvom in, and ſo gleet dovvn the rocky Caverns of theſe Mountains, […]
Talk about this word "gleet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gleet. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gleet. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gleet "gleet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gleet.
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@misc{gleet_2026,
title = {gleet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gleet},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
