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You can make 19 words from gleek according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of gleek

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Definitions and meaning of gleek

gleek

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: glēk, IPA^(key): /ɡliːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk

Etymology 1

From Middle French glic, from Old French glic (“a game of cards”), of Germanic origin from or related to Middle High German glücke, gelücke (“luck”) and Middle Dutch gelīc (“like, alike”). More at luck, like.

Noun

gleek (countable and uncountable, plural gleeks)

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.

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See also

• murnival

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

gleek (plural gleeks)

2. A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
3. An enticing glance or look.
4. (informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.

Synonyms

• (jest or scoff): deception, jest, scoff

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Verb

gleek (third-person singular simple present gleeks, present participle gleeking, simple past and past participle gleeked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jest.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To pass time frivolously.
4. (informal) 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.

   The man said he “gleeked” on the woman, but did not intentionally spit on her.

Synonyms

• (to ridicule): gibe, mock, scoff at, sneer at

Translations

Related terms

• glicke

See also

• gleet

Etymology 3

Blend of glee +‎ geek

Noun

gleek (plural gleeks)

1. (slang) A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.

Further reading

• “gleek”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “gleek”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Spitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kegel, kegel

Low German

Verb

gleek

1. first-person singular past of glieken