glaikit

or glaik·et

[gley-kit]

adjective Chiefly Scot.

foolish; giddy; flighty.

Origin of glaikit

1400–50; late Middle English < ?

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Examples from the Web for glaikit

Historical Examples of glaikit

The glaikit limmers, will they no be content wi their ain game, but maun turn common thieves?
At War with Society or, Tales of the Outcasts
James McLevy
They were of the glaikit kind ye can always hear loang before ye see.
The House with the Green Shutters
George Douglas Brown

British Dictionary definitions for glaikit

glaikit

glaiket

adjective

Scot foolish; silly; thoughtlessa glaiket expression

Derived Formsglaikitness or glaiketness, noun

Word Origin for glaikit

C15: of obscure origin

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