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Fortune vs Gleek - What's the difference?

fortune | gleek |

As nouns the difference between fortune and gleek

is that fortune is destiny, especially favorable while gleek is a once popular game of cards played by three people or gleek can be a jest or scoff; trick or deception or gleek can be (slang) a geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.

As verbs the difference between fortune and gleek

is that fortune is (obsolete|intransitive) to happen, take place while gleek is (archaic) to jest, ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.

fortune

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Destiny, especially favorable.
  • * (1743-1809)
    • you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
  • * {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=
  • A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
  • A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
  • The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • 'Tis more by fortune , lady, than by merit.
  • Good luck.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune .
  • One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
  • A large amount of money.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * (good luck)

    Derived terms

    * * fortune hunter * * * * * *

    Verb

    (fortun)
  • (obsolete) To happen, take place.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew ch. 8:
    • Then the heerdmen, fleed and went there ways into the cite, and tolde everythinge, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devyls.
  • * {{quote-book, 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, , chapter=Night 20,
    • , It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning}}
  • To provide with a fortune.
    • (Richardson)
  • To presage; to tell the fortune of.
    • (Dryden)

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    gleek

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A once popular game of cards played by three people.
  • Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.

    • Etymology 2

    Related to Etymology 1. Of (etyl) origin, ultimately from (etyl) . More at .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
  • * 1592 , , act iii, scene 2
    • Where's the Ba?tards braues, and Charles his glikes : What all amort?
  • An enticing glance or look.
  • * (rfdate), (Francis Beaumont) and
    • A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.
  • Good fortune; luck.
  • (informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
    • Synonyms
    * (jest or scoff) deception, jest, scoff

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To jest, ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
  • * 1594 , (William Shakespeare), , act iii, scene 1 (First Folio ed.)
  • * that ?ome hone?t neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleeke vpon occa?ion.
  • (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.
    • The man said he “gleeked” on the woman, but did not intentionally spit on her.
    Synonyms
    * (to ridicule) gibe, jest, mock, scoff, sneer

    Related terms

    * glicke

    See also

    * gleet

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.

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