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gleek

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WOTD – 21 October 2010

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) enPR: glēk, IPA(key): /ɡliːk/
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  • Rhymes: -iːk

Etymology 1

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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.

 
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Noun

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gleek (countable and uncountable, plural gleeks)

  1. (uncountable) A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
    • 1640, Ben Jonson, The Magnetick Lady, or, Hvmors Reconcil'd, act 2, scene 4:
      Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.
  2. (countable) Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
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Etymology 2

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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.

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gleek (plural gleeks)

  2. A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
  3. An enticing glance or look.
  4. (informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
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gleek (third-person singular simple present gleeks, present participle gleeking, simple past and past participle gleeked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jest.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
      […] that ſome honeſt neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleeke vpon occaſion.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To pass time frivolously.
  4. (informal) 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.
    • 1999 October 18, Gem, “what can you wiggle?”, in alt.music.soulcoughing (Usenet):
      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.
    • 1999 November 15, THAT antix GUY, “the weird personal info”, in alt.rave (Usenet):
      My buddy can gleek (thats what he called it too) but he used highly pressured spit forced out between two teeth with his tounge to do it.
    • 2002 July 21, Sean Wilkinson, “Can you gleek?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
      I used to be able to gleek "by accident" every now and then, but I couldn't figure out how to do it deliberately.
    The man said he “gleeked” on the woman, but did not intentionally spit on her.
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Etymology 3

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Blend of glee +‎ geek

Noun

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gleek (plural gleeks)

  1. (slang) A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.

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gleek

  1. first-person singular past of glieken
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