gloak
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Origin unknown.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gloak (plural gloaks)
- (UK, slang) A man, a guy.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man
- 1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers (page 149)
- You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you.
- 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[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary