whilk

British

/ hwɪlk /

pronoun

an archaic and dialect word for which

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Whilk and Misky The London duo mixes electronica with folk influences.

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And when I made him taste a whilk, and try a periwinkle, His last objections vanished—so she's soon to be my bride!

From Project Gutenberg

Now heraldry's a science that I haven't studied much in, But I mean to ask the College—if it's not against their rules— That three periwinkles proper may be quartered on our 'scutcheon, With a whilk regardant, rampant, on an oyster-knife, all gules!

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Whilk, hwilk, pron. an obsolete form of which.

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He was inquyrit to come to him, whilk he refusit, and sweiris that he will indure nothing of him.

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