gleet

English

Etymology

Old French glette.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡliːt/

Noun

gleet (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
2. (obsolete, except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance.
3. (vulgar, slang) A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea.
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     There was this Estella, a real drab, being given syph and gon and gleet by Augustus John, and Tommy has her living with him in that place of his in Earl’s Court and going to a doctor, nothing wrong with her actually but there might well have been, and he never touches her, you know.

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Scots

Noun

gleet (uncountable)

1. Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
2. Any slimy, viscous substance.