gleek

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

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• Rhymes: -iːk

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”); or from or related to Middle Dutch gelīc (“like, alike”). More at luck, like.

gleek (countable and uncountable, plural gleeks)

1. (uncountable) A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, The Magnetick Lady, or, Hvmors Reconcil'd, Act 2, scene 4:

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

2. (countable) Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.

• murnival

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 *(e)lAig'- (“to jump, spring, play”). 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.

gleek (plural gleeks)

1. A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Hen VI, act iii, scene 2

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

2. An enticing glance or look.
   • 1647, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid in the Mill, Act II, scene ii:

     A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye:

3. (informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.

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

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.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act V, scene i:

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

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jest.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii, scene 1 (First Folio ed.)

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

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.
   • 1999 October 18, Gem, “what can you wiggle?”, in alt.music.soulcoughing, Usenet:

     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.

   • 1999 November 15, THAT antix GUY, “the weird personal info”, in alt.rave, Usenet:

     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.

   • 2002 July 21, Sean Wilkinson, “Can you gleek?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet:

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

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

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

• glicke

• gleet

Blend of glee +‎ geek

gleek (plural gleeks)

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

• gleek at OneLook Dictionary Search
• gleek in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Spitting#Gleeking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Kegel, kegel

gleek

1. First-person singular past of glieken