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[ gleek ] / glik /
verb (used without object) Archaic.Origin of gleek1First recorded in 1540–50; of uncertain origin Words nearby gleekglede, glee, glee club, gleed, gleeful, gleek, gleeman, gleenie, gleesome, gleet, gleety Definition for gleek (2 of 2)[ gleek ] / glik /
nounan English card game for three persons played with a 44-card pack, popular from the 16th through the 18th century. Origin of gleek2First recorded in 1525–35; from Middle French glic, perhaps from Middle Dutch gelīc “similar to, like”; see like1 Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gleekIn plain Gleek, his career was about to get hit with the force of a thousand grape slushies. Glee's New Villain|Itay Hod|September 20, 2010|DAILY BEAST By the cross of these hilts, I'll never play at gleek again, whilst I have a nose on my face: I smell the knavery of the game. A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15)|W. Carew Hazlitt The index of extravagance at gleek seems to have advanced alarmingly in the course of the seventeenth century. Poeta de Tristibus: Or, the Poet's Complaint|Anonymous To gleek is used in Shakespeare for "to make sport, to jest," &c. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I (of 3)|Thomas Percy
A metaphor taken from the game at cards called Gleek, where a gleek of knaves is three. A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15)|W. Carew Hazlitt Impetuous youth, play not with him at billiards, basset, or gleek. Adventures among Books|Andrew Lang
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