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Dutch Gleek

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Tippling. Gleek is a game, and the phrase means the game loved by Dutchmen is drinking.

Nor could be partaker of any of the good cheer except it were the liquid part of it, which they call ‘Dutch Gleek.ʹ”—Gayton.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dust
Dustman has arrived (The)
Dusty
Dusty-foot
Dutch
Dutch Auction
Dutch Clocks
Dutch Comfort
Dutch Concert
Dutch Courage
Dutch Gleek
Dutch Gold
Dutch Nightingales
Dutch School
Dutch Toys
Dutch Uncle
Dutchman
Duty
Duumvirs
Dwarf (The)
Dwarf Alberich (in the Nibelungen Lied)