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gleek
1[ gleek ]
verb (used without object)
, Archaic.
- to make a joke; jest.
gleek
2[ gleek ]
noun
- an English card game for three persons played with a 44-card pack, popular from the 16th through the 18th century.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gleek1
First recorded in 1540–50; of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences
In plain Gleek, his career was about to get hit with the force of a thousand grape slushies.
From The Daily Beast
Gleek is the proper name of the second game, and not check, as your correspondent suggests.
From Project Gutenberg
Was it ever heard there was a game at gleek at the ordinary before, without counting tiddy?
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To gleek is used in Shakespeare for "to make sport, to jest," &c.
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The index of extravagance at gleek seems to have advanced alarmingly in the course of the seventeenth century.
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Gleek is described in Cottons Complete Gamester, where it is called a noble and delightful game or recreation.
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