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Today's word has more than one meaning in modern parlance, however, we prefer to focus on the more obscure definitions and usages. After all, what fun is there in using words in a common manner?

![tractor-prank-funny.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTFt3mDfag7kZxm2HDnTcFTwRcX7cDmZR2MSUxD2LXhVD/tractor-prank-funny.gif) ---- ------ ----- ----- http://i.imgur.com/1pAOlnG.png **DEFINITION:** >Verb To make a joke, mock, or make sport of To scoff ***SYNONYMS:*** >jest >shenanigan >prank ***ANTONYMS:*** >tragedy **ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:** >1540-50, but the actual source is unknown **PRONUNCIATION:** >[glēk] [LISTEN](http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Gleek) **SCRABBLE SCORE:** >10 **USAGE AND EXAMPLES** >*Pet.* No money, on my faith, but the GLEEK; I will give you the minstrel. >*First Mus.* Then will I five you the serving creature's dagger on your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you, I'll fa you; do you note me? >*First Mus.* An you re us and fa us, you note us. >*Sec. Mus.* Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit. >*Pet.* Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. --Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, 1595 >They had scarce plac'd themselves, when more came in, but were Anonymous, 'twas no matter, 1 could tell who and what they were, by this GLEEK of circumstances, the shrug, the shaking of the head, and tossing back the peruke with indignation: they had juft reacht the table, when the door-keeper with a great deal of breath cry'd out, "Make room for Caffus the Author of the Cenfure of the Rota; blefs me, faid I to my Friend, why is he called *Caffus?*" --A Description of the Academy of the Athehian Virtuosi printed for Maurice Atkins, 1673 ---- ---- ---- http://i.imgur.com/yFPl0m0.gif ------ ------

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