Glaiky is a Geordie and Northern English dialect adjective for someone who's a bit daft, scatterbrained, or acting without much thought.
Glaiky is a Geordie and Northern English dialect adjective for someone who's a bit daft, scatterbrained, or acting without much thought. It's the kind of word a grandmother might deploy affectionately when a grandchild does something foolish, or a friend might toss at someone who's just made an obvious mistake. It carries more exasperated fondness than genuine insult — you're not dangerous, just a bit thick in the moment.
Don't be so glaiky — you've put your shoes on the wrong feet again.
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(Geordie, pejorative) A fool or eccentric person.
Geordie (Newcastle) dialect slang for a fool, an eccentric, or someone behaving in a daft and aimless way. Glaik has a rough-edged, affectionate quality typical of North East English insults — it's more likely to be said with a laugh than genuine contempt. You might call a mate a glaik for doing something dim, or use it to describe someone who's acting like a clown. Still alive in genuine Geordie speech.
(Scotland, Northern England) Senseless; silly, foolish.
A British regional adjective meaning foolish-looking or behaving in a silly, daft manner. It combines the beloved Northern and Scottish term "daft" (meaning stupid, silly, or crazy in a harmless way) with the "-like" suffix common in regional dialects. If something seems daftlike, it's not quite all there — a bit ridiculous, a bit ill-thought-out, a bit gormless. It's never particularly harsh; more affectionately exasperated than genuinely scathing.
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(Geordie) Daft; odd; thoughtless; foolish.
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