Scottish dialect: the quality or state of being glaikit; foolishness, silliness, or lack of sense.
From glaikit plus the suffix -ness. Like glaiketness, this noun form applies English's most productive suffix to a Scottish adjective. The variant spelling reflects dialectal pronunciation differences within Scotland itself.
This word demonstrates that even as English spreads worldwide, people create new words following the same basic rules—adding -ness to glaikit is automatic because English speakers instinctively use this pattern.
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