单词 | gleek |
释义 | gleekn.1 1. A card game, played by three persons; forty-four cards were used, twelve being dealt to each player, while the remaining eight formed a common ‘stock’. Also penny (halfpenny, two-penny, etc.) gleek. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > gleek gleek1533 farthing-gleeka1652 toe-gleek1689 1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man Pref. It is..lerned sooner..thanne Primero or Gleeke. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing To Rdr. sig. A.iij What is a man now a dayes if he know not..to play..at Cards, Dice, &c. Post, Cente, Gleke, or such other games. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 226 As in games at Cards, the Maw requires a quicke conceit,..the Gleeke (because of varietie) requires a retentive memory. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. ii. 31 in Wks. II When you please Sir, I am For three peny Gleeke, your man. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 160 Yet you've an Imposition laid on Brick, For all you then laid out, at Beast, or Gleek. 1680 T. Shadwell Woman-captain iv The rogue bids for his liberty, as if it were a Stock at 12d Gleek. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 56 The games of Gleek, Primero, In and In, and several others now exploded, employed our sharping ancestors. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. x. 237 Would win ten times as much at gleek and primero, as I used to do at put and beggar-my-neighbour. 1855 W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 113 It was at some place of lower resort that he..staked his little means at gleek [etc.]. a. A set of three court cards of the same rank in one hand, in the game of gleek. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > gleek > combination of cards gleek1614 1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque D 2 b Sta. Give me a mournaval of aces, and a gleeke of queens. Long. And me a gleeke of knaves. Scat. Vdslid, I am gleek't this time. 1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar iii. v. sig. F4 Tri. At gleeke? content. A morneuall of Ases, gleeke of Knaues, Iust nine apeece.[A mournival of aces counted for 8 points, and a gleek of knaves for 1 (Cotton).] 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester vii. 94 A Mournival is either all the Aces, the four Kings, Queens, or Knaves, and a Gleek is three of any of the aforesaid. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [noun] leashc1330 ternarya1464 trinity1542 three?1544 triad1546 trine1554 triplicity1585 ternion1587 pair royal1592 trinary1596 trias1610 gleek1615 triangle1621 triple1653 triumvirate1655 prial1776 trio1777 trefoil1826 trinomy1838 Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred1937 1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar iv. x. sig. I3 For this day wee'l celebrate A gleeke of Marriages. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes 4th Intermeane 78 in Wks. II Cen. Let a protest goe out against him. Mir. A mourniuall of protests; or a gleeke at least! 1662 Rump Songs (1874) I. 160 From a gleek of Lord Keepers of one poor Seal, Libera nos [etc.]. c1671 A. Marvell On 3 Dukes killing Beadle in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 526 'Twas there a Gleek of Dukes [etc.]. 1710 Brit. Apollo 22–24 May Like Paris with his Gleek of Wagtails on Ida. ΚΠ 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 96 He was not able to stirre his jawes, nor could be partaker of any of the good cheer, except it were the liquid part of it, which they call Dutch gleek, where he plaied his cards so well, and vied and revied so often that he had scarce an eye to see withall. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > gleek > player gleeker1676 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode ii. i. 20 There never was so unsatiable A Carder, an old Gleeker never lov'd to sit To't like her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † gleekn.2 Obsolete. 1. a. A gibe, jest, gird. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > instance of hoker-wordOE gabc1225 scornc1275 jape1377 bourda1387 gaudc1440 knack1513 scoffing1530 gleekc1540 jest1548 to have a fling at?1550 snack?1554 boba1566 taunta1566 gird1566 flim-flam-flirt1573 gibe1573 scoff1573 flouting-stock1593 mycterism1593 flirt1613 fleera1616 scomma1620 jeer1631 snouchc1780 brocard1837 c1540 Image Ipocrysy 732 They durst not fight ne strike They feared of a gleke. 1565 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge Pref. 5 Glykes, nyppes and scoffes, bittes, cuttes and gyrdes, become not that stage. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dvjv With gybes, and glickes, and taunting stryfe. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 35 What greater discourtesie..then with so many nippes, such bitter girdes, such disdainfull glieckes, to aunswere him that honoured hir. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet E ij b If thy vain be so pleasant, and thy wit so nimble, that all consists in glicks and girds; pen some playe for the Theater. 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. i. iv. 175 I meane to take downe the confident and the ouerweener with a sober gleeke. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 22 Blasphemin' wi' a valiant zeal Twa ne'er-do-weels, the Paip and deil, Wi' gleeks at Guise and Mary. b. to give one a (or the) gleek: to make a jest at his expense; to mock, make sport of, play a trick upon him. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > make fun of to have (also i-do) (something) to gameeOE to make (a) game of (also at, on)?c1250 overmirtha1400 sporta1533 to make a sport of1535 to make (up) a lip1546 to give one a (or the) gleek1567 to make a May game of1569 to play with a person's nose1579 to make merry over (also with)1621 game1699 to make fun of1732 hit1843 1567 G. Turberville tr. A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres in tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 160–160v Nowe wholy she delights Anchises eye to leake: To him alone she closely clings, and giues the reast the gleake. c1580 tr. Bugbears iv. v, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 If they thinke to beguyle or geve me such a gleke, they must aryse earlye. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 218 A wise man to giue a glyke to another wise man,..cyphereth a letter grossely for the nonce. c1599 Life T. More in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biogr. (1810) II. 125 Sir Thomas, seeing the exceeding vanitie of the man, thought he needed modestie, and gave him this gentle gleeke. 1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 23 I vow by Ioue, if I can see him weare it, Ile giue him a glyg. 2. A coquettish glance. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > coquettish look gleek1601 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Palinode sig. Mv Coy Glaunces, Glicks, Cringes, and all such simpring Humors. View more context for this quotation 1623 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill ii. ii A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). gleekv. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To trick, circumvent. (In quot. 1614 with allusion to gleek n.1) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > outwit, get the better of undergoa1325 circumvene1526 crossbitec1555 circumvent1564 gleek1577 outreach1579 fob1583 overreach1594 fub1600 encompassa1616 out-craftya1616 out-knave1648 mump1649 jockey1708 come1721 nail1735 slew1813 Jew1825 to sew up1837 to play (it) low down (on)1864 outfox1872 beat1873 outcraft1879 to get a beat on1889 old soldier1892 to put one over1905 to get one over on1912 to get one over1921 outsmart1926 shaft1959 1577 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 56 Methinkes thou gleekiste many a lorde. 1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque D 2 b Scat. Come Gentlemen, what's your game? Sta. Why Gleeke, that's your onely game. Gleeke let it be, for I am perswaded I shall gleeke some of you; cut sir. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xii. 59 He hath gleeked us to some purpose, bobbed we are now for ever. 1661 Tom Tyler & his Wife 3 The more that I get her, the more she doth glike me. 2. intransitive. To make a jest or gibe (at a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)] heascenc1000 gabc1225 tita1400 knackc1425 scoff1530 flout1551 taunt1560 gird1573 beflout1574 scoff1578 gibe1582 flirt1593 gleek1593 to geck at1603 to gall ata1616 jeera1616 gorea1632 jest1721 fleer1732 chi-hike1874 chip1898 chip1898 to sling off (at)1911 jive1928 sound1958 wolf1966 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes in Wks. (Grosart) II. 197 Not mee alone did hee reuile..but glickt at Pap-hatchet once more. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 139 Nay I can gleeke, vpon occasion. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. i. 70 I haue seene you gleeking & galling at this Gentleman twice or thrice. View more context for this quotation a1687 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 150 Besides, you must not take a Picque, If he sometimes speak plain and gleek. 3. (See quot. 1611.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look sideways at gleek1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Limer,..to gleeke, or looke askew at. Derivatives ˈgleeking n. and adj. ΚΠ ?1535 F. Bigod Treat. Impropriations sig. B.viiv By the glykynge & gleynyng..scrapige [sic] and rakynge togyther of almost all the fatte benefyces wtin this realme. 1592 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 1 The sly Information of the fine French [historian], a glicking Remembrancer. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 65 Bacchanalia's good store in every Bishops family, and good gleeking. a1859 L. Hunt Shewe Faire Seeming xxix Well wotting such be gullery all, and gleeking. 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