Scottish dialect: silly, foolish, vacant, or light-headed in manner.
Variant of glaiket, from glaik. This spelling is an alternative form found in Scottish literature, possibly from a different regional pronunciation or scribal tradition. The word has remained relatively stable in Scottish English since medieval times, though it's now primarily seen in literature and formal dialect writing.
The existence of multiple spellings like 'glaiket' and 'glaikit' for the same word reveals how dialects were transmitted orally for centuries before being standardized in writing—each scribe heard it slightly differently.
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