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Definition: GLEEK |
GLEEKIntransitive verb1. To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. Noun1. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. 2. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. 3. An enticing look or glance. 4. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. |
Date "GLEEK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gleek A game at cards, sometimes called cleek. Thus, in Epsom Wells, Dorothy says to Mrs. Bisket, "I'll make one at cleek, that's better than any two-handed game. " Ben Jonson, in the Alchemist, speaks of gleek and primero as "the best games for the gallantest company." Gleek is played by three persons. Every deuce and trois is thrown out of the pack. Twelve cards are then dealt to each player, and eight are left for stock, which is offered in rotation to the players for purchase. The trumps are called Tiddy, Tumbler, Tib, Tom, and Towser. Gleek is the German gleich (like), intimating the point on which the game turns, gleek being three cards all alike, as three aces, three kings, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrespect | Hiss, hoot, boo, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face. |
Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GLEEK |
| English words defined with "GLEEK": Murnival. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GLEEK": Dutch Gleek. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GLEEK": Glike. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gleek | 16 |
fred gleek | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLEEK": gleeked, gleeking, gleeks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-k-l" | |
-1 letter: geek, glee, keel, leek, leke. | |
-2 letters: eel, eke, elk, gee, gel, keg, lee, leg, lek. | |
-3 letters: el. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-k-l" | |
+1 letter: gleeks, kegler. | |
+2 letters: gemlike, gleeked, keelage, keeling, kegeler, keglers, kleagle, leakage, leglike, peglike. | |
+3 letters: aguelike, cleeking, gamelike, gatelike, gleeking, glenlike, gluelike, keelages, kegelers, kleagles, kneeling, leakages, sleeking, weeklong. | |
+4 letters: dirgelike, gauzelike, gnomelike, grapelike, kenneling, kentledge, kerneling, knowledge, stagelike, tigerlike. | |
+5 letters: beflecking, daggerlike, fingerlike, gentlefolk, goalkeeper, junglelike, keelhaling, kennelling, kentledges, kernelling, kieselguhr, knowledges, skeltering, sleekening, tonguelike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4C 45 45 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. . . -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001100 01000101 01000101 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G L E E K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004C 0045 0045 004B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4146393945 |
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