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Ilk   /ɪlk/   Listen
Ilk

noun
1.
A kind of person.  Synonym: like.  "I can't tolerate people of his ilk"






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"Ilk" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lively—who appears neither to have inherited the title (seeing that his sainted father, a victim of English tyranny, was named Arthur O'Tooley, perhaps one of the tailors of that ilk) nor to have paid M. Mery five or ten thousand pounds for it—is an Irishman of the purest virtue and the noblest sentiments, who possesses a cottage on a hill not far from the village and castle of Stafford. From this interesting height ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... the South—the Giles's and John Taylor's and men of that ilk—made up for their paucity in numbers by their unscrupulous ingenuity and active zeal. They put forth the idea that the American Protective Policy was a policy of fostering combinations by Federal laws, the effect of which was to transfer a considerable ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

... SLY."—The name of Mr. J.E. SLY was mentioned in the World last week as a candidate for the office of High Bailiff of the City of London Court. Quite a Shakspearian name is Sly. "Look in the Chronicles," quoth Christopher of that ilk, "We came in with RICHARD Conqueror." We drink success to him in "a pot of the smallest ale" and "Let the World slip,"—whether it did slip or not, the event will prove,—"We shall ne'er ...
— Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 13, 1892 • Various

... outlaw, Cole Younger. He rejoined me in Florida. I was "Mr. Dykes," a sojourner from the north, and while I carried a pair of pistols in my belt to guard against the appearance of any of Judy's ilk, the people of Lake City never knew it until one day when the village was threatened ...
— The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself • Cole Younger

... tears awhile May chide thy joy an' damp thy smile; But sune ilk grief shall wear awa', And I'll be forgotten by ane an' ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller


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