glaikit
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of glaikit
1400–50; late Middle English < ?
Example Sentences
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Od, ye puir, glaikit, misleart remlet o' a perishin' race," retorted Tam— "air ye no the mair unsicker?
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
They were of the glaikit kind ye can always hear loang before ye see.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
The lassie is glaikit wi' pride; In my pouches I hadna a plack The day that I was a bride.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Hear me, ye venerable core, As counsel for poor mortals That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door, For glaikit Folly's portals!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
I saw her once at the house he lodged in; and a glaikit lassie I thought her.
From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence
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