glaikit
adjective
foolish; giddy; flighty.
glaiket
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a variation of
glaikit.
Example Sentences
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Ye glaiket, gleesome, dainty damies, Wha, by Castalia’s wimplin’ streamies, Lowp, sing, and lave your pretty limbies, Ye ken, ye ken, That strang necessity supreme is ‘Mang sons o’ men.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
To think the lad should have made so able an appearance, and then bolted off this gate, after a glaiket ne'er-do-weel, like a hound upon a false scent!
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
Glib i' the tongue is aye glaiket at the heart.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Thae wild chiels an' their glaiket hizzies wad fill the beggar wi' the sound o' his ain laugh, as if he were a pair o' walking bagpipes.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
