glaikit
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- glaikitness noun
Etymology
Origin of glaikit
1400–50; late Middle English < ?
Example Sentences
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"Nor me either," chimed in a fifth; "I aye thocht her a puir, glaikit, silly-looking thing."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
Od, ye puir, glaikit, misleart remlet o' a perishin' race," retorted Tam— "air ye no the mair unsicker?
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
They were of the glaikit kind ye can always hear loang before ye see.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
Ye glaikit, gleesome, dainty damies, Wha, by Castalia's wimplin streamies, Lowp, sing, and lave your pretty limbies, Ye ken, ye ken, That strang necessity supreme is 'Mang sons o' men.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
The lassie is glaikit wi' pride; In my pouches I hadna a plack The day that I was a bride.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
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