ilk

alternative ilke

1. Northern EnglandScotlandnot comparableotherwise archaicVery; same.

   By semblaunt, was that ilke image

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

plural ilks · alternative ilke

1. A type, race, or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

   The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.

   1931, Ogden Nash, The Cow

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   "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]

   1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC

   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.

   2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)

   Synonyms: kind, likes, sort, type, hue, persuasion