Talk:gleek

Gleek != Glee Geek

I'm undoing the seventh definition for this term unless someone has objections. Jnagyjr 00:33, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion: October 2016–August 2017

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gleek

Noun: Rfv-sense of "luck". --Jerome Potts (talk) 07:00, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Verb: Rfv-sense: "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.

Not in Century 1911. OED? UD? DCDuring TALK 12:39, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

All I could find was [this], and I am not even sure it is acceptable as durably archived. Kiwima (talk) 18:57, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

At least it suggests that the definition is not a hoax. DCDuring TALK 20:47, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

See Spitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia and this 2004 blog post. DCDuring TALK 20:57, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

OK, the saliva thing is cited, but the "luck" meaning seems to have failed. Kiwima (talk) 19:57, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 01:56, 7 August 2017 (UTC)