umm, not that I'm a vocab purist or anything, but "gleek" used to mean a form of saliva shooting I could never get the hang of....back in the 90's... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?…
Ok, this confirms that the term "gleeking" (as a form of spitting) did in fact exist outside the Naches, WA environs in a pre-Internet-as-carrier-mechanism era. The term just kind of showed up at school one day and then all the cool kids were "gleeking" for months on end, so I thought someone just made it up.
I could never gleek, either. So if someone gleeked on me, I would just spit in their face (like a light spit, like if you went "ththththththththththth" and just blew spit through your teeth). It was a good way to get people to not gleek on me. True story!
Yeah, my friends and cousins back in IN were all doing that and burping the alphabet while I looked on with glee (haha!) and made futile attempts to copy them.
Gleeking existed in Virginia middle schools, as well. As far as Sarah Palin being legitimized by a mainstream bunch of intellectual eggheads... well, I don't even think she would like that.
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That said, I really wish people (myself included, ugh) would stop rubbernecking at that huckster.
I seem to remember it showing up the same way it did for the rest of you right around 1995, give or take a year.