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ilk

1

[ ilk ]

noun

  1. family, class, or kind:

    he and all his ilk.



adjective

ilk

2

[ ilk ]

pronoun

adjective

  1. each; every.

ilk

1

/ ɪlk; ˈɪlkə /

determiner

  1. each; every
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


ilk

2

/ ɪlk /

noun

  1. a type; class; sort (esp in the phrase of that, his, her, etc, ilk )

    people of that ilk should not be allowed here

  2. of that ilk
    of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named

    Moncrieff of that ilk

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Usage

Although the use of ilk in the sense of sense 1 is sometimes condemned as being the result of a misunderstanding of the original Scottish expression of that ilk , it is nevertheless well established and generally acceptable
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ilk1

before 900; Middle English ilke, Old English ilca (pronoun) the same, equivalent to demonstrative i (cognate with Gothic is he, Latin is that) + a reduced form of līc like 1; which, such

Origin of ilk2

before 900; Middle English ilk, north variant of ilch, Old English ylc (pronoun) each
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ilk1

Old English ǣlc each (+ a 1)

Origin of ilk2

Old English ilca the same family, same kind; related to Gothic is he, Latin is, Old English gelīc like
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. of that ilk,
    1. (in Scotland) of the same family name or place:

      Ross of that ilk, i.e., Ross of Ross.

    2. of the same class or kind.
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Example Sentences

Pastor Gaylard Williams earned a good reputation among his evangelical ilk.

We can thank Lisa Kudrow for the rise of celeb reality TV—Real Housewives, the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo and its ilk.

To complicate matters further, the only people who seemed to have any desire to go after Booker were of the conspiracy-theory ilk.

Like maybe the line that Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others of their ilk are pushing?

All right, so we know that Loestrin and its ilk are, as Redmond terms it, “hair-unfriendly pills.”

Was the second Charles one whit more desirable than the first of that ilk?

A three days journey from Barzan takes the traveller to the domain of the great rival of the chief of that ilk, viz.

I felt hopeful that for a time at least I should see the last of stewards and their ilk.

This takes us back to a century and a half before the Conquest; and it was one of this ilk who was the last of the deans.

Here were to be found small shops, cheap boarding houses, palmists, clairvoyants and others of their ilk.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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