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But if there's one thing from that episode that I liked the most, it's the one person I think all my gleek friends hate: Terri Schuester.

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  1. A jest; a scoff; a trick or deception. Vnto whom Lucilla aunswered with this glyeke. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 95.
  2. An enticing or wanton glance. Waving fans, coy glances, glicks, cringes, and all such simpering humours. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, Palinode. But stay; I do espy A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, ii. 2.
  3. In music, same as glee
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  • But if there's one thing from that episode that I liked the most, it's the one person I think all my gleek friends hate: Terri Schuester. —  BuddyTV
  • And after dinner to the office all the afternoon till late at night, and then home, where my aunt and uncle Wight and Mrs. Anne Wight came to play at cards (at gleek which she taught me and my wife last week) and so to supper, and then to cards and so good night. —  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
  • "I can 'gleek upon occasion.' —  Fernley House
  • Impetuous youth, play not with him at billiards, basset, or gleek. —  Adventures Among Books
  • Was it ever heard there was a game at gleek at the ordinary before, without counting tiddy? —  The Fortunes of Nigel
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  1. Also dial. Scots glaik (q. v.); formerly also glick, glike; possibly from a form (Scandinavian ?) corresponding to Anglo-Saxon gelāc, play, movement, gelācan (preterit gelēc), delude, trick, from ge-, a generalizing prefix (see i-), + lāc, Icelandic leik, play, sport. See laik, lark.
  2. from gleek, n.
  3. Generally regarded as a particular use of gleek, with which it is usually merged; but from Old French glic, glicq, ghelicque, chance, hazard, also a game of cards like gleek, literally ‘like’ or ‘even,’ from Middle Dutch ghelijck or Middle High German gelīch, glīch, German gleich, like, even: see alike, like.
  4. from gleek, n.
 

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