gleek1
[gleek]
- to make a joke; jest.
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Origin of gleek1
First recorded in 1540–50; origin uncertain
gleek2
[gleek]
- 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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Origin of gleek2
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Examples from the Web for gleek
Contemporary Examples
In plain Gleek, his career was about to get hit with the force of a thousand grape slushies.
Historical Examples
Gleek let it be, for I am persuaded I shall gleek some of you.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15)W. Carew Hazlitt
To gleek is used in Shakespeare for "to make sport, to jest," &c.
Terms at the game of gleek, which she is supposed to love immoderately.
A Select Collection of Old English PlaysRobert Dodsley
Impetuous youth, play not with him at billiards, basset, or gleek.
Adventures among BooksAndrew Lang
By the cross of these hilts, I'll never play at gleek again, whilst I have a nose on my face: I smell the knavery of the game.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15)W. Carew Hazlitt
Word Origin and History for gleek
n.
card game, 1530s, from French glic, ghelicque (15c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch ghelic (Dutch gelijk) "like," because one of the goals of the game is collecting cards of the same rank.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper