Definitions for gleeks

gleeks gleek

Spelling: [gleek]
IPA: /glik/

Gleeks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in gleeks (eegkls).

Definitions for gleeks

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 gleeks

First recorded in 1540-50; origin uncertain

Examples for gleeks

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for gleeks
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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