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glaikit

or ·

[ gley-kit ]

adjective

Chiefly Scot.
  1. foolish; giddy; flighty.


glaikit

/ ˈɡɪɪ /

adjective

  1. foolish; silly; thoughtless

    a glaiket expression

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Derived Forms

  • ˈ쾱ٲԱ, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of glaikit1

1400–50; late Middle English < ?
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of glaikit1

C15: of obscure origin
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Example Sentences

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I think "glaikit" is a superior term to "stupid", "messages" preferable to "groceries" and "shoogly" more mellifluous than "unstable".

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The cootie muircocks crousely craw, The maukins tak' their fud fu' braw, I gie their wames a random paw, For a' they're skilpy; For wha' sae glaikit, gleg an' din, To but the ben, or loup the linn, Or scraw aboon the tirlin'-pin Sae frae an' gilpie?

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"Nor me either," chimed in a fifth; "I aye thocht her a puir, glaikit, silly-looking thing."

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Aweel, the doctor said she was greatly better; and sae, as I was complainin at the time, she was taen ben the house, to let me get some rest; and Lizzy Duncan—glaikit hizzy! as she has turned oot—cam to sit up for the nicht.

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Yet, with all the guidwife's cleverness, she had not been able either to prevent Giles from getting behind with his rent—the more by token as, we fancy, that Kelpiehaugh was too dear—or to get "the glaikit hizzy," Mary, her daughter, well buckled to a canny laird, who might help them to pay up their arrears.

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