ilk
/ɪlk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.91 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very; same.
Example Sentences
- "By semblaunt, was that ilke image"
- ""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."
- "On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk."
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.