ilk
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 3
Definition of ilk
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable)Very; same.
“By semblaunt, was that ilke image”
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adj
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(Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable)Very; same.
“By semblaunt, was that ilke image”
noun
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A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
“"Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]”
“The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.”
“On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk.”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”). The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.
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