gleek









gleek


verb (used without object) Archaic.

  1. to make a joke; jest.

noun

  1. an English card game for three persons played with a 44-card pack, popular from the 16th through the 18th century.
n.

card game, 1530s, from French glic, ghelicque (15c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch ghelic (Dutch gelijk) “like,” because one of the goals of the game is collecting cards of the same rank.

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