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gleek

verb /ɡliːk/

  1. To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.

    obsolete, transitive

    I have seen you gleeking and / galling at this gentleman twice or thrice.

  2. To jest.

    intransitive, obsolete

    […] that ſome honeſt neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleeke vpon occaſion.

  3. To pass time frivolously.

    intransitive, obsolete

  4. To discharge a long, thin stream of liquid (including saliva) through the teeth or from under the tongue, sometimes by pressing the tongue against the salivary glands.

    informal

    i just push the tip of my tongue against the roof of my mouth and saliva squirts out in a groovy little arc. i think you'd really have to see it to know what i am talking about. but you can gleek best right after chewing big red gum.

Where it comes from

Related to Etymology 1. Of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *gleikr, leikr (“sport, play, game”), from Proto-Germanic *galaikaz (“jump, play”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. Cognate with Old English ġelācan (“to play a trick on, delude”), Scots glaik (“a glance of the eye, deception, trick”, n.), Scots glaik (“to trick, trifle with”, v.). More at lake.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gleek (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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