December 26, 2008

Ilk

ilk



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–noun 
1. family, class, or kind: he and all his ilk.  
–adjective 
2. same.  

—Idiom
3. of that ilk
a. (in Scotland) of the same family name or place: Ross of that ilk, i.e., Ross of Ross.
b. of the same class or kind.

–pronoun 
1. each.  
–adjective 
2. each; every. 


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ilk (n.) 
 
long ago meant "like" or "same" and was used in Scotland to identify people by associating them with the place they hailed from, as in McLeod of that ilk, meaning "McLeod of the same (place)," or "McLeod of McLeod." 

But today the only Standard meaning of ilk in English is "kind" or "sort": We don’t socialize with people of that ilk.


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Haneke is obsessed by that spectacle, and by the helpless reflex that compels us to keep watching, even as we cringe [at] what we see. When the first "Funny Games" came out, in 1997, it felt like a furious rejoinder [to] "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) and the rest of the pack—to the insistence, among Tarantino and his ilk, on bloodshed as an amusing spectator sport. 

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cohort retinue cavalcade 
splinter
coterie 
esoteric Threnody
bevy
group of birds
a bevy of boisterous [sailors]
troupe
Continuing on their way, the [knight] and [squire] encounter a troupe of [performers], including a couple named Joseph and Mary who have a young child.

clique 
congeniality, exclusiveness. cliques in a [school]
ring 
selfish, dishonest. a [gambling] ring

throng
presses together or forward, with common aim
and everyone throngs in the street to watch, [perched] on stoops like kids in an Andy Hardy picture. 
a throng of [memories].  
He thronged the picture [with] stars.
swarm   
contemptuous
A swarm of [dirty] children played in the street.
rabble
The [nobility] held [the rabble] in complete contempt. 
Deluge 








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