glaikit
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of glaikit
1400–50; late Middle English < ?
Example Sentences
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"Nor me either," chimed in a fifth; "I aye thocht her a puir, glaikit, silly-looking thing."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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 Burns, Robert
Od, ye puir, glaikit, misleart remlet o' a perishin' race," retorted Tam— "air ye no the mair unsicker?
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Seton he gaspit and he girn'd, And showed his teeth sae whyte, His een were glaikit like a man's That's strycken wi' affryghte.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
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