Noun: gloak
| Singular | gloak |
| Plural | gloaks |
Sample Sentences
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You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you. [1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149:]
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‘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?’ [1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 401:]
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[…] both toby-gills [highwaymen], buz-gloaks [pickpockets], cracksmen [housebreakers], &c., but from their good address and respectable appearance nobody would suspect their real vocation. [quoted in 2013, Nicola Phillips, The Profligate Son (page 133)]
Nouns inflected like gloak
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Origin unknown.