glaikit
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of glaikit
1400–50; late Middle English < ?
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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
He greeted the carline and lasses sae braw, And his bare lyart pow sae smoothly he straikit, And he looket about, like a body half glaikit, On bonny sweet Nanny, the youngest of a'.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The lassie is glaikit wi' pride; In my pouch I had never a plack On the day when I was a bride.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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
Ye glaikit, 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 Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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