ilk

¹

[ ilk ]

noun

1. family, class, or kind:

   he and all his ilk.

adjective

1. same.

ilk

²

[ ilk ]

pronoun

1. each.

adjective

1. each; every.

ilk

¹

/ ɪlk; ˈɪlkə /

determiner

1. each; every

ilk

²

/ ɪlk /

noun

1. a type; class; sort (esp in the phrase of that, his, her, etc, ilk )

   people of that ilk should not be allowed here

2. of that ilk
   of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named

   Moncrieff of that ilk

Usage

Although the use of ilk in the sense of sense 1 is sometimes condemned as being the result of a misunderstanding of the original Scottish expression of that ilk , it is nevertheless well established and generally acceptable

Word History and Origins

Origin of ilk¹

before 900; Middle English ilke, Old English ilca (pronoun) the same, equivalent to demonstrative i (cognate with Gothic is he, Latin is that) + a reduced form of līc like ¹; which, such

Origin of ilk²

before 900; Middle English ilk, north variant of ilch, Old English ylc (pronoun) each

Word History and Origins

Origin of ilk¹

Old English ǣlc each (+ a ¹)

Origin of ilk²

Old English ilca the same family, same kind; related to Gothic is he, Latin is, Old English gelīc like

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. of that ilk,
   1. (in Scotland) of the same family name or place:

      Ross of that ilk, i.e., Ross of Ross.

   2. of the same class or kind.

Example Sentences

As much as mold is not great and people don’t like it, and they think if you’ve got mold on the top … it spoils down into the jam, I’m still of the ilk of taking the mold off the top and eating what’s underneath.

From Washington Post

Almost all the Cubans who are here are of that ilk, with a few exceptions of course.

From Washington Blade

Read more on OZYHe’s trying to solve a problem his ilk has been accused of exacerbating.

From Ozy

Tucker Carlson and his ilk still have some of the largest platforms in America.

From The Daily Beast

We’ll see if DeSantis and his ilk care the next time a social media giant deplatforms me, or if they only care when wacko politicians lose Twitter access for tweeting something crazy.

From The Daily Beast

Pastor Gaylard Williams earned a good reputation among his evangelical ilk.

From The Daily Beast

We can thank Lisa Kudrow for the rise of celeb reality TV—Real Housewives, the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo and its ilk.

From The Daily Beast

To complicate matters further, the only people who seemed to have any desire to go after Booker were of the conspiracy-theory ilk.

From The Daily Beast

Like maybe the line that Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others of their ilk are pushing?

From The Daily Beast

All right, so we know that Loestrin and its ilk are, as Redmond terms it, “hair-unfriendly pills.”

From The Daily Beast

Was the second Charles one whit more desirable than the first of that ilk?

From Project Gutenberg

A three days journey from Barzan takes the traveller to the domain of the great rival of the chief of that ilk, viz.

From Project Gutenberg

I felt hopeful that for a time at least I should see the last of stewards and their ilk.

From Project Gutenberg

This takes us back to a century and a half before the Conquest; and it was one of this ilk who was the last of the deans.

From Project Gutenberg

Here were to be found small shops, cheap boarding houses, palmists, clairvoyants and others of their ilk.

From Project Gutenberg