glaikit, a. Sc. and north.
(ˈgleːkɪt)
Also 5 glakyt, 6 glaykit, -yt, 8 glakit, 6– glaiket.
[Related to glaik n. and v., but recorded earlier than these.]
Senseless, foolish. In later use: Thoughtless, flighty, giddy (said esp. of women).
| c 1450 Henryson Sum Practysis Med. i. Poems (1865) 43 Your saying I haif sene, and on syd set it, As geir of all gaddering, glaikit, nocht gude. c 1470 Henry Wallace x. 845 Ȝon glakyt Scottis can ws nocht wndyrstand; Fulys thai ar. 1549 Compl. Scot. xv. 136 It vas beleuit be al the Romans that he [Brutus] vas becum frenetic and glaykit. a 1605 Montgomerie Poems x. 18 Some we sie, in evry age, Lyk glaikit fools, gang gooked gaits. 1786 Burns To Unco Guid 12 Poor mortals, That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door, For glaikit Folly's portals. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet ii, A glaiket ne'er-do-weel. 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 67 Glib i' the tongue is aye glaiket at the heart. 1893 in Northumbld. Gloss. |
Hence ˈglaikitly adv., foolishly, thoughtlessly; ˈglaikitness, flightiness.
| a 1500 Ratis Raving 342 Al thar disport and thar blychtnes Is al in foly and glaikitness. 1823 Lockhart Reg. Dalton III. 171 Bid her have done wi' her glaiketness for a wee, and let's hear plain sense for ance. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 299 If glaikitly we yokit, We wad be toilin' sair. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Glaikedness, giddiness. |