¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gleeked
1. gleek [v] - See also: gleek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleeked
Literary usage of Gleeked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and by Charles Mackay (1887)
"In these quotations, and others that might be made from contemporary authors,
gleek signifies to assert a triumph over or superiority to the person gleeked, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"To be gleeked was the contrary. A gleek was three of the same cards in one hand
together. Hence three of anything was called a gleek, as in Fletcher's Poems ..."
3. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642 by Frederick Gard Fleay (1891)
"... and then again had gleeked at them and Greene as make-plays and make-bates in
his Lamb of God, which had been preached by him without book three years ..."
Other Resources:
