Meaning

(uncountable) A once-popular game of cards played by three people..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
2. (countable) Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
3. A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
4. An enticing glance or look.
5. (informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To jest.
8. (obsolete, intransitive) To pass time frivolously.

Example Sentences

Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.

Where's the Baſtards braues, and Charles his glikes: What all amort?

A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye:

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

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

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.

My buddy can gleek (thats what he called it too) but he used highly pressured spit forced out between two teeth with his tounge to do it.

I used to be able to gleek "by accident" every now and then, but I couldn't figure out how to do it deliberately.

Word Forms

• gleeks
• gleak
• gleeking
• gleeked

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