Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A jest; a scoff; a trick or deception.
- n. An enticing or wanton glance.
- n. In music, same as glee
- To ridicule; deride; scoff at.
- To make sport; gibe; sneer.
- To pass time sportively or frivolously; frolic.
- n. An old game at cards played by three persons, with forty-four cards, each person having twelve, and eight being left for the stock.
- n. Three cards of a sort in this game, as three aces, three kings, etc. Hence— Three of anything.
- In the game of gleek, to gain a decided advantage over.
Wiktionary
- n. A once popular game of cards played by three people.
- n. Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of everything.
- n. A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
- n. An enticing glance or look.
- n. Good fortune; luck.
- n. informal A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
- v. archaic To jest, ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
- v. 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.
- n. slang A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.
- n. obsolete An enticing look or glance.
- v. obsolete To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.
- n. obsolete A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.
- n. obsolete Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything.
Etymologies
- Blend of glee and geek (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So what's a parent of a tween "gleek" - as fans call themselves - to do?”
“Unleash Your Inner Gleek on the iPad - Fans of Glee, Fox's campy comedy about the misadventures of a high school show choir, now have one more way to "gleek" out: Using their iPhones and iPads.”
“What makes him giddy as a "gleek" at a Chris Colfer sighting in this past TV season?”
“If you're a "gleek," more commonly known as a fan of Fox's hit "Glee," then you know what we're talking about.”
“Neck Hooping gleek said: On September 25, 2009 cool!”
“I LOVE that idea!! my gleek heart is all a flutter …”
'Glee': Kristin Chenoweth to return! Plus, is Julia Roberts a Gleek? | EW.com
“Oops, I used the wrong form of “No” in my last comment. “no” not “know” gleek”
This week's cover: Why America is falling for 'Glee' | EW.com
“So go on, let your showtune-loving, gleek flag fly.”
The Washington Post: Five reasons to watch Sunday's Tony Awards
“A gleek of saliva from her glands squirts out, then two more.”
“Miscellanea: tiddy: In the game of gleek, the four of trumps (alternate definition)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gleek’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gynaecology, gynaecomania, gyromancy, gyrograph, gyve, gyrus, gyron, gynaecocracy, gyrose, gynics, gutturotetany, gymnophobia and 439 more...
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Short of a Full Deck
A list of playing card games employing fewer cards than the typical 52-card deck.
pinochle, Skat, piquet, belote, Doppelkopf, Tarot, tarock, tarocco, hanafuda, sixty-six, Schnapsen, ulti and 32 more...
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Glancing Blows
glim, glink, glisk, glunch, twire, glint, asquint, fleer, gleek, keek, skelly, flick and 8 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Forgotten English 1
jacal, mastaba, lucarne, quoin, triglyph, gargarice, nimgimmer, phrenologize, fleam, eaglestone, toad eater, king's evil and 156 more...
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Rabelation
Words and phrases from Urquhart and Motteaux's matchless translation of Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (available here).
Make bold with suggestions down in the comment box.bum-gut, torchecul, septembral juice, turdy, linkie pinkie, neat's tongues, variorum, fanfreluches, well-mouthed wench, the close buttock..., rataconniculation, beeves and 300 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
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norrell's Words
hush, dove, euphoria, nebulae, bryn mawr, darling, phoenix, nape, cream, butterscotch, cosmos, frost and 190 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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Negative
caitiff, valetudinarian, fell, whiffler, attercop, Shaitan, Jezebel, desultory, panjandrum, limmer, cockalorum, laodicean and 91 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Second Semester Vocab for AP Literature
Here's the list of words for second semester for AP Literature.
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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eek!
cleek, leek, reek, sleek, eek, cheek, fenugreek, greek, creek, meek, geek, week and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gleek.
chained_bear "'Have ye a deck of cards in the house?'
'What? I—yes, of course.'
'Bring them, then,' he said with a smile. 'Gleek, loo, or brag, your choice.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 516 Feb 1, 2010
milosrdenstvi See also shakespearean insult service, thou gleeking, beef-witted moldwarp Nov 20, 2009
lampbane I can't embed, so a link to the commercial will have to do.
They're also having an online competition called "Biggest GLEEk." Nov 20, 2009
uselessness So Fox actually promotes this word, even though John's definition below is widely known? Maybe not the best marketing decision ever made... Nov 20, 2009
lampbane A fan of the show Glee, as dubbed by FOX. Nov 20, 2009
jinglebelljosie an enticing glance Feb 28, 2009
john According to Wikipedia and Double-Tongued, it also means squirting saliva directly from the salivary glands.
And it's the name of a blue space monkey sidekick from the old Super Friends.
Used by Shakespeare, too, in Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Nov 8, 2008
jinglebelljosie 16th and 17th century game of cards for three players Nov 8, 2008
arby (obs.): gibe or jibe, flout, jeer, scoff, fleer, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, twit, wipe (dial. or slang), slap in the face. May 6, 2007