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gleek
1[ gleek ]
verb (used without object)
- to make a joke; jest.
gleek
2[ gleek ]
noun
- an English card game for three persons played with a 44-card pack, popular from the 16th through the 18th century.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gleek1
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Example Sentences
In plain Gleek, his career was about to get hit with the force of a thousand grape slushies.
Gleek is the proper name of the second game, and not check, as your correspondent suggests.
Was it ever heard there was a game at gleek at the ordinary before, without counting tiddy?
To gleek is used in Shakespeare for "to make sport, to jest," &c.
The index of extravagance at gleek seems to have advanced alarmingly in the course of the seventeenth century.
Gleek is described in Cottons Complete Gamester, where it is called a noble and delightful game or recreation.
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