Definitions for gleek

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IPA: /glik/

Gleek is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in gleek (eegkl).

Definitions for gleek

noun

  1. an English card game for three persons played with a 44-card pack, popular from the 16th through the 18th century.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a joke; jest.

Origin of gleek

First recorded in 1540-50; origin uncertain

Examples for gleek

For those,” he observes sarcastically, “who be well willing, it is soon learned—in good faith sooner than primero or gleek.

To gleek is used in Shakespeare for "to make sport, to jest," &c.

gleek let it be, for I am persuaded I shall gleek some of you.

Impetuous youth, play not with him at billiards, basset, or gleek.

In plain gleek, his career was about to get hit with the force of a thousand grape slushies.

Some were playing at gleek, and, to the uninitiated, incomprehensible was the jargon in which the players indulged.

Terms at the game of gleek, which she is supposed to love immoderately.

Yes, faith, gleek; and I have not one court card but the knave of clubs.

By the cross of these hilts, I'll never play at gleek again, whilst I have a nose on my face: I smell the knavery of the game.

A metaphor taken from the game at cards called gleek, where a gleek of knaves is three.

Word Value for gleek
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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