Gleek vs Fleet - What's the difference?
gleek | fleet |
A once popular game of cards played by three people.
Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
A jest or scoff; trick or deception.
* 1592 , , act iii, scene 2
An enticing glance or look.
* (rfdate), (Francis Beaumont) and
Good fortune; luck.
(informal) A stream of saliva from a person's mouth.
(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.
A group of vessels or vehicles.
Any group of associated items.
* 2004 , Jim Hoskins, Building an on Demand Computing Environment with IBM
(nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
(nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear-admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
(obsolete) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide. cognate to Low German fleet
* Matthewes
(nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
(obsolete) To float.
To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy
* Shakespeare
(nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
(nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
To take the cream from; to skim.
(literary) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble; fast.
* Milton
* 1908:
(uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
As a noun gleek
is (slang) a fan of the television show .As a proper noun fleet is
the stream that ran where fleet street now runs.gleek
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Related to Etymology 1. Of (etyl) origin, ultimately from (etyl) . More at .Noun
(en noun)- Where's the Ba?tards braues, and Charles his glikes : What all amort?
- A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.
Synonyms
* (jest or scoff) deception, jest, scoffVerb
(en verb)- The man said he “gleeked” on the woman, but did not intentionally spit on her.
Synonyms
* (to ridicule) gibe, jest, mock, scoff, sneerSee also
* gleetEtymology 3
Anagrams
* ----fleet
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network.
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Together wove we nets to entrap the fish / In floods and sedgy fleets .
Derived terms
* Fleet * fleet in being * Fleet Street * merchant fleetEtymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- [Antony] "Our sever'd navy too,
Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like."'' -- Shakespeare, ''Antony and Cleopatra
- a ship that fleets the gulf
- (Spenser)
- Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly.
- And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet;'' -- Percy Shelley, ''Rosalind and Helen .
- (Totten)
Adjective
(en-adj)- In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.
- (Mortimer)