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glaikit, a. Sc. and north.|ˈgleːkɪt|
Also 5 glakyt, 6 glaykit, -yt, 8 glakit, 6– glaiket.
[Related to glaik n. and v., but recorded earlier than these.]
Senseless, foolish. In later use: Thoughtless, flighty, giddy (said esp. of women).
c1450Henryson Sum Practysis Med. i. Poems (1865) 43 Your saying I haif sene, and on syd set it, As geir of all gaddering, glaikit, nocht gude. c1470Henry Wallace x. 845 Ȝon glakyt Scottis can ws nocht wndyrstand; Fulys thai ar. 1549Compl. Scot. xv. 136 It vas beleuit be al the Romans that he [Brutus] vas becum frenetic and glaykit. a1605Montgomerie Poems x. 18 Some we sie, in evry age, Lyk glaikit fools, gang gooked gaits. 1786Burns To Unco Guid 12 Poor mortals, That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door, For glaikit Folly's portals. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ii, A glaiket ne'er-do-weel. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 67 Glib i' the tongue is aye glaiket at the heart. 1893in Northumbld. Gloss.
Hence ˈglaikitly adv., foolishly, thoughtlessly; ˈglaikitness, flightiness.
a1500Ratis Raving 342 Al thar disport and thar blychtnes Is al in foly and glaikitness. 1823Lockhart Reg. Dalton III. 171 Bid her have done wi' her glaiketness for a wee, and let's hear plain sense for ance. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 299 If glaikitly we yokit, We wad be toilin' sair. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Glaikedness, giddiness. |