Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Inflammation of the urethra resulting from chronic gonorrhea and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge.
- n. The discharge that is characteristic of this inflammation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Slime; mucus.
- n. A thin ichor running from a sore; in particular, a transparent mucous discharge from the urethra: an effect of gonorrhea.
- To flow in a thin limpid humor; ooze, as pus.
- To flow slowly, as water.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, except Scots Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
- n. obsolete, except Scots Any slimy, viscous substance.
- n. vulgar, slang A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea.
- v. To flow in a thin, limpid humour; to ooze, as gleet.
- v. To flow slowly, as water.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
- v. To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.
- v. To flow slowly, as water.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea
Etymologies
- Old French glette. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English glet, slime, from Old French glette, from Latin glittus, sticky. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Jojohn was very mean and keen and wiry and had specialized in like Sexual Assault, and The Doctor had pre - tended to be able to cure syph and gon and gleet but he had only injected water, also he had killed off two devotchkas instead, like he had promised, of getting rid of their unwanted loads for them.”
“They may be used to cure gleet, stricture and prostatitis, when complicating Spermatorrhoea or Impotence.”
“Spermatorrhoe, Impotence, Prostatitis or gleet, and in order to effect”
“Neglected gleet often causes stricture; neglected or improperly treated stricture often causes and keeps up a gleet.”
“If it runs forward along the urine canal, it produces so-called +gleet+.”
“Another set of statements, equally sweeping and based upon the best of medical evidence, may be made, _i. e._, more cases of gleet and stricture are caused by Self-Abuse (masturbation, Onanism), and sexual excesses than by gonorrhoea -- formerly and ignorantly supposed to be about the only cause.”
“+Spermatorrhoea+ or +Impotence+, stricture of the urethra is the cause of the trouble, whether the stricture is due to gonorrhoea, gleet, etc., or to +masturbation or excesses+.”
“-- When gonorrhoea is not cured at the end of twenty-one or twenty-eight days, at which time all {469} discharge should have ceased, we have a condition known as chronic clap, which is nothing more or less than gleet.”
“-- When gonorrhoea is not cured at the end of twenty-one or twenty-eight days, at which time all discharge should have ceased, we have a condition known as chronic clap, which is nothing more or less than gleet.”
“Unless carefully treated, and treated early, it gives rise to many complications, such as inflammation of the bladder, gleet, stricture, inflammation of joints, abscesses, and rheumatism.”
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for gleet.
chained_bear Yarb, that's terrific. :) Now instead of thinking of Al Swearengen's tortured penis, I'll think of R2-D2 beeping in joy. Jul 30, 2008
dontcry *hork* Jul 30, 2008
yarb It's the sound of R2D2 falling in love. Jul 29, 2008
bestiary but why does this word sound so happy? :/ Jul 29, 2008