ilk

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  1. noun Type or kind: can't trust people of that ilk.
  2. pronoun Scots The same. Used following a name to indicate that the one named resides in an area bearing the same name: Duncan of that ilk.
  3. Word History
    When one uses ilk, as in the phrase men of his ilk, one is using a word with an ancient pedigree even though the sense of ilk, "kind or sort,” is actually quite recent, having been first recorded at the end of the 18th century. This sense grew out of an older use of ilk in the phrase of that ilk, meaning "of the same place, territorial designation, or name.” This phrase was used chiefly in names of landed families, Guthrie of that ilk meaning "Guthrie of Guthrie.” "Same” is the fundamental meaning of the word. The ancestors of ilk, Old English ilca and Middle English ilke, were common words, usually appearing with such words as the or that, but the word hardly survived the Middle Ages in those uses.
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  • CBO takes a "conservative" approach to their accounting method because Obama and his ilk are already planning more "stimulus" under the guise of massive spending. —  AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
  • He and his ilk are the reason why you are a minority. —  Think Progress
  • DHS / TSA / CBP and their ilk are the greatest single treat to our aviation way of life.
  • But what sets him apart from the rest of his ilk is his largesse and his commitment to give back to the society from which, he says, he has benefited immensely.
  • NASA, home of the modern day Trofim Lysenko, James Hansen, must be concerned that the fraudulent science created by Hansen and his ilk is about to be exposed with the consequence being a reduced ability to feed on the public teat through government funding. —  Kerplunk - Common sense from Down Under
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English ilke, same, from Old English ilca; see i- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ilke, ulke, ilce, assibilated ilche, yche, from Anglo-Saxon ilc, ylc, the same, from y¯, instrumental of a pronominal root represented by Goth, i-s, he (see he), and L. i-dem, the same (see idem, identic), + -līc, connected with ge-līc, like, and appearing also similarly in each, which = Scots whilk, such = Scots sic, Scots thilk, etc.
 

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