gloak

English

Etymology

Origin unknown.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡləʊk/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊk

Noun

gloak (plural gloaks)

  1. (UK, slang) A man, a guy.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man
    • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 401:
      ‘Brit, by the look of him,’ cries a short, freckl’d seaman in whom Stature and Pugnacity enjoy an inverse relation. ‘– long way from home ain’t you old Gloak?’
    • quoted in 2013, Nicola Phillips, The Profligate Son (page 133)
      […] both toby-gills [highwaymen], buz-gloaks [pickpockets], cracksmen [housebreakers], &c., but from their good address and respectable appearance nobody would suspect their real vocation.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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