ilk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a type or kind of person or thing

   He distrusted politicians of that particular ilk.

From Old English ilca ('same'), from Proto-Germanic *ī-līkaz ('of the same form'). The modern sense 'type, kind' arose from a misunderstanding of the Scots phrase 'of that ilk' ('of the same name/place').

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