[ noun ] a kind of person <noun.cognition> We'll not see his like againI can't tolerate people of his ilk
Ilk \Ilk\, a. [Scot. ilk, OE. ilke the same, AS. ilca. Cf. {Each}.] Same; each; every. [Archaic] --Spenser.
{Of that ilk}, (a) denoting that a person's surname and the title of his estate are the same; as, Grant of that ilk, i.e., Grant of Grant. [Scottish] --Jamieson. (a) Of the same kind. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Ilk \Ilk\ ([i^]lk), n. Kind; class; sort; type; as, him and his ilk; -- sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people. [1913 Webster +PJC]
When Maureen Breenan, Kim Criswell and Ms. Bautier present a bouncy, close-harmony version of "Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia," we are back in the days of girl trios, of the Andrews Sisters and their ilk.
Nothing will so discourage gurus of Mr. Fulghum's ilk as simply to ignore them.
Donald Cruickshank, managing director, declined to comment on the size of Mr. Winwood's advance, but noted that "people of his ilk can command very substantial advances."
It was just that old soldiers of his ilk do not die easily.
In the long term, though, the hope is that the "Vermummungsverbot" will curb him and his ilk.
The strengthening market gave him an opportunity to "break-even" on these stocks and to move some assets into "stand-by blue chips like Johnson & Johnson and stocks of that ilk," he said.
Suzy says she almost didn't answer the Revson column: "But nobody, especially nobody of this ilk, can attack the queen.
In the latter regard, the Metrodome's surface, like others of its ilk, consists of half an inch of plastic over five-eighths of an inch of padding on an asphalt base.