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glaikit

glaikit adjective: senseless; silly, foolish.

Adjective

glaikit (comparative more glaikit, superlative most glaikit)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Senseless; silly, foolish.
    • 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, published 2012, page 86

Forms of glaikit

comparativemore glaikit
superlativemost glaikit

Origin of glaikit

Borrowed from Scots glaikit.

Words formed from glaikit

  • glaikitness

Questions about glaikit

What does glaikit mean?
Glaikit means senseless; silly, foolish.
What part of speech is glaikit?
Glaikit is an adjective.

Words near glaikit in the dictionary

  1. Glagolitic alphabet
  2. Glagolitsa
  3. Glahn
  4. Glahns
  5. glaik
  6. glaikit
  7. glaiks
  8. glaiky
  9. Glainnoux
  10. glair
  11. glaire

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