Glaikit

Bill had been sitting there, a glaikit look on his face. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Leno says being pres is a lousy job for the money; McCain says the house is nice; Leno tells him he's got enough of those; McCain has no response and looks like an embarrassed glaikit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He looked up blankly, his mouth opening and closing like a particularly glaikit goldfish. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2005)

As such, he was utterly made for the job, as his combination of physical clumsiness, verbal ineptitude and unwaveringly glaikit expression must have made even the most gauche and pallid code-cruncher feel like a cocksure sophisticate. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2004)

He had been here in another lifetime, just another glaikit Geography student on a field trip, and had marvelled at it like he was standing on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

Just think o 'Sim gettin' the dirty gae-bye frae a glaikit lassie hauf his age; and no 'his equal in the three parishes, wi' a leg to tak 'the ee o' a hal dancin'-school, and auld Knapdale's money comin 'till him whenever Knapdale's gane, and I'm hearin' he's in the deid-thraws already. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Jist look at her, the glaikit tinkler that she is. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

They drew up wi 'glaikit Englishers at Carlisle Ha', ❋ Various (N/A)

Ye can't hear anything of the blasted, blethering, doddering, glaikit fool-stuff yer maister talks, can ye? ❋ Unknown (1922)

Not one of them – havering, glaikit lassies! was the reply. ❋ Margaret (1891)

They were of the glaikit kind ye can always hear loang before ye see. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)

I saw her once at the house he lodged in; and a glaikit lassie I thought her. ❋ Catherine Helen Spence (1867)

Gibson, author of the entertaining new book Stories About Storytellers, said, "It's bad news if people take a scunner to you, and it's really bad news if they call you daft, and really, really bad news if they call you glaikit." ❋ WARREN CLEMENTS (2012)

Poland: nobody says a word of Denmark: emasculated Italy is still singing; opera girls are still dancing; but Chatham Will, glaikit ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

It begins with the line: "Dinna be glaikit (don't be stupid) dinna be ower smert (don't be too clever),/Dinna craw croose (don't crow proudly), dinna be unco blate (don't be afraid to say what you think)." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Contrast with glaikit lambs tottering about before fastening on to a dangling piece of wool to suck with a disappointed expression.

"[awa'] [yi] glaikit bastirt!" (You are [joking], you stupid bastard!" ❋ Steve W (2006)

you've [got] a glaikit [looking] [face]. ❋ Lexaclarke (2022)

[Look at that] big [glaikit] [bastard]! ❋ Infamous Budgerigar (2016)

[Nicola Sturgeon] is is [glaikit], I'm so glad she [resigned] ❋ Rotten Turkey (2023)