glike

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5

Definition of glike

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A sneer; a flout.
    “For when I haue taken on both handes, I will giue him the glike which thought he had won me by his giuing.”
    “And it is not vnlikely but that M. Dorman with others, vpon vew of D. Hardinges booke, iudgeing that he, as a graue and learned man, had ſufficiently reaſoned againſt vs, but had otherwiſe D. Harding dealte to coldely with vs (as of purpoſe auoidynge glikes , nippes, ſcoffes, bittes, cuttes, and girdes, for ſo himſelfe ſaithe) […]”
    “A wise man to giue a glike to another wise man, oꝛ a Captaine to beguile a Captaine , oꝛ an enemy to delude his enemy, ciphereth a letter groſſely for the nonce, and ſendeth it ſuch a way as he imagineth that it ſhalbe ſurpꝛiſed..”
    “Now where’s the Baſtards braues, and Charles his glikes? / What all amort? Roan hangs her head for griefe, / That ſuch a valiant Company are fled.”

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Etymology

See gleek (“a jest”).

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