halok, halock Sc.
(ˈheɪlək)
[Origin unknown.]
A light thoughtless girl or young woman. Hence halokit a., giddy, thoughtless, foolish, crazy.
| 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 465 Hutit be the halok lase a hunder ȝeir of eild! 1675 Rutherford's Rel. Lett. Postscr. 270 A well-meaning kind of harmless, though half hallocked Persons. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 90 Shangymou'd, halucket Meg. |