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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Type or kind: can't trust people of that ilk.
  2. pro. 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. adj. Variant of ilka.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Same; very same: often used absolutely with that.
  2. Hence, blunderingly — Of that sort or kind: as, men of that ilk.
  3. Each; every.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Scotland and Northern England The same.
  2. n. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Archaic Same; each; every.
  2. n. Kind; class; sort; type; ; -- sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a kind of person

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līkan (“body”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English ilke, same, from Old English ilca; see i- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Scots - each, every.

    May foes be strang, and friends be slack
    Ilk action, may he rue it,
    May woman on him turn her back
    That wrangs thee, Willie Stewart,
    You're welcome, Willie Stewart

    - Robert Burns, 'You're welcome, Willie Stewart'. Jan 28, 2009

  • vanishedone I see you've met WeirdNet. Sep 28, 2008

  • whitetrashpeg what a terribly basic definition. They might has well have written "somethin'".

    "The kind or class of people that resemble, behave in a manner similar to, or are of the same social status as a certain person; The same " Sep 28, 2008

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