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glaikit
glaikit
English
Adjective
glaikit (comparative more glaikit, superlative most glaikit)
- (Scotland, Northern England) Senseless; silly, foolish.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 86:
- All the same, he thought, Duror had the appearance of a drunk man, unshaven, slack-mouthed, mumbling, rather glaikit.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 86:
Scots
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: glay-k-it
Noun
glaikit (plural glaikits)
- (pejorative) Alternative of glaik.
Adjective
glaikit (comparative mair glaikit, superlative maist glaikit)
- (pejorative) silly, foolish
- Whattan ane glaikit fool am I / To slay myself with melancholy. (Alexander Scott, ‘To Love Unluvit’)