ilk
noun
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Pronunciation: /ɪlk/
adj
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”). The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.
- Very; same.
“By semblaunt, was that ilke image”
noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”). The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.
- A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
“"Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]”
“The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.”