gleek

noun

1. (uncountable)A once-popular game of cards played by three people.

   “Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.”

2. (countable)Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
3. A jest or scoff; trick or deception.

   “Where's the Baſtards braues, and Charles his glikes: What all amort?”

4. An enticing glance or look.

   “A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye:”

5. (informal)A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
6. (slang)A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.
7. (slang)A fan of the television show Glee.

   “I'm more of a Gleek myself.”

   “Well I thought she looked quite cute, so I Googled her. I'm not yet a full on Gleek, honest!”

   “are there any other Gleeks out here in viPhone land? I saw on my facebook today that there's a Glee app!! $2.99 so I grabbed it. maybe I shouldn't have seeing all the financial stress I'm currently under but I'm a Gleek in a big way!! so I couldn't resist!! I needed to check it out!!!”

   “Yep... I'm a "Gleek"! (I'm sure it's partially due to being in band in high school, as we usually did a medley of songs from a musical during each performance.)”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.

   “I have seen you gleeking and / galling at this gentleman twice or thrice.”

2. (intransitive, obsolete)To jest.

   “[…] that ſome honeſt neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleeke vpon occaſion.”

3. (intransitive, obsolete)To pass time frivolously.
4. (informal)To discharge a long, thin stream of liquid (including saliva) through the teeth or from under the tongue, sometimes by pressing the tongue against the salivary glands.

   “i just push the tip of my tongue against the roof of my mouth and saliva squirts out in a groovy little arc. i think you'd really have to see it to know what i am talking about. but you can gleek best right after chewing big red gum.”

   “My buddy can gleek (thats what he called it too) but he used highly pressured spit forced out between two teeth with his tounge to do it.”

   “I used to be able to gleek "by accident" every now and then, but I couldn't figure out how to do it deliberately.”