leet

• IPA^(key): /liːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

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• Homophone: Leith (th-stopping)

From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.

leet (plural leets)

1. (Scotland) A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.^[1]

• long leet
• short leet

From Old English lēt, past tense of lǣtan (“to let”).

leet

1. (obsolete) simple past of let

Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English lete (“meeting”), from Anglo-Norman lete and Medieval Latin leta (Anglo-Latin), possibly from Old English ġelǣte (“crossroads”).

leet (plural leets)

1. (British, obsolete) A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.^[1]

Jamieson mentions the alternative spellings lyth, lythe, laid, and laith, and connects it to a verb lythe (“to shelter”), as it "is frequently caught ... in deep holes among the rocks".^[2]

leet (plural leets)

1. (UK) The European pollock.
   • 1854, William Hughes, A Practical Treatise on the Choice and Cookery of Fish‎^[2], Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, page 27:

     The whiting pollock sometimes, par excellence is styled pollock only. On the Yorkshire coast it is called a leet, and in Scotland a lythe.

From Middle English lete, from Old English ġelǣt, ġelǣte, from Proto-Germanic *galētą, *lētą. More at leat.

leet (plural leets)

1. (obsolete) A place where roads meet or cross; intersection
2. Alternative form of leat (“watercourse”).

Apheretic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.

• 1337, eleet, el337, l33t, 31337, and 3l33t.

leet (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang, dated) Abbreviation of leetspeak.

leet (comparative leeter, superlative leetest)

1. Of or relating to leetspeak.
2. (slang) Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.
3. (slang) Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.
4. (slang) Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.
   • 2006, Maximum PC (Autumn, page 26)

     Powered by leetness! You can have the leetest hardware imaginable in your gaming rig, but it won't matter if you run it with a cheap power supply.

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• Category:English leetspeak

• “leet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "leet" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.

• Teel, Tele, teel, tele, tele-

leet

1. nominative plural of lee

• tele, tele-

leet

1. inflection of leeden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular/plural imperative

leet

1. inflection of leeën:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

From Old Dutch lēth, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþ.

lêet

1. loathsome, abhorrent

• leit (Limburgish)

• Dutch: leed

From Old Dutch *lēth, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą.

lêet n

1. damage, harm
2. suffering, sadness
3. sickness

• leit (Limburgish)

• Dutch: leed
• Limburgish: leidj

• “leet (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “leet (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “leet (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “leet (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Inherited from Old Frisian lēta, from Proto-West Germanic *lātan.

leet

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to let

• lätje (Mooring)
• let (Sylt)

From Proto-Germanic *lataz.

leet (comparative leeter, superlative leest)

1. (Sylt) late

• leed (Föhr-Amrum)
• lääs (Mooring)

leet

1. simple past and past participle of lee

• lea

leet n

1. definite singular of le

• elte, etle, lete, tele

leet

1. sorry, regretful, rueful

From Old Frisian let, from Proto-West Germanic *lat. More at late.

leet

1. late

• lääst
• leeter

Compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”).

leet (plural leets)

1. a list

From Middle English lete, from Old English ġelēte.

• IPA^(key): /liːt/

leet

1. leading road^[1]
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 78:

     Vour-wing leet.

     Four cross roads.

2. A man-made canal between sea and lake.^[2]