GAWKY, adj. foolish.  Burns, 78, 60.  From gowk.  Cp. gawkish.

GEDDE, sb. a pike (fish).  Bruce, II, 576; Sat.  P. I, 53, 9.  O.N.
    gedda, the pike, Dan. gjedde, Sw. gaedda.  Not in M.E.,
    except in Sco. works, and does not seem to exist in Eng.
    diall.

GEMSAL, YEMSEILL, YHEMSALE, sb. concealment, secrecy.  Bruce, XX,
    231; Wyntoun, VIII, 19, 206; VIII, 36, 84.  O.N. goeymsla,
    O. Ic. geymsla, Norse goymsla, goymsel, concealment. 
    Dano-Norse gjemsel.  The ending sal is distinctively Scand. 
    Cp. traengsel, misery; laengsel, longing; horsel, hearing;
    pinsel, torture; trudsel, threat; opforsel, conduct;
    Sco. tynsell, hansell, etc.

GEN[G]ELD, _sb._ reward, recompense.  Douglas, II, 100, 12; II,
    111, 17; Scott, 59, 62.  O.N. _gegn-gjald_, reward, O. Dan.
    _gengaeld_, _giengiald_ id., _giengielde_, to reward, Norse
    _gjengjaeld_. _Gen_ is the same as the _gegn_ in _gegna_, to
    suit, _-[g]eld_ can be either Scand. or Eng.  The palatal g
    is also Scand. in this word.  The compound gen[*g]eld is
    Scand.  In Sco. also spelled gan[*g]eld, gayn[*g]eild.

GER, GAR, vb. to make, cause, force.  O.N. gera (Cl. and V.). 
    O. Dan. goerae, Sw. goera, Norse gjera, to do, to make. 
    O. Nh. goerva. Gar is the modern form which exhibits
    regular Sco. change of er to ar.  Cp. serk, sark;
    werk, wark.

GESTNYNG, sb. hospitality.  Douglas, III, 315, 8.  O.N. gistning,
    a passing the night as a guest at a place, gista, vb. to
    spend the night with one, gestr, guest.  O. Dan. gaestning,
    O. Sw. gaestning, gistning.

GLETE, GLEIT, vb. to glitter.  Douglas, I, 33; II, 88, 16; Montg. 
    C. and S., 1288; Dunbar, G.T., 66.  O.N. glita, to glitter,
    Dan. glitte.  Cp.  Shetland glid, a glittering object.  O.E.
    glitnian > M.E. glitenien, as O.E. glisnian > M.E.
    glistnian, N. Eng. glisten.  The M.E. glitenian (N.Eng.
    *_glitten_) was replaced by the Scand. glitter.

GLEIT, sb. literally “anything shining,” used in Palace of Honour,
    II, 8, for polish of speech.  See the vb.

GLEY, sb. a look, glance, stare.  Mansie Wauch, 85, 10; 117, 37. 
    See Wall, gley, to squint, B-S. glien.  Cp.  Sw. dial.
    glia.

GLEG, adj. sharp.  See Wall, deriv. glegly, quickly.

GLITTERIT, adj. full of glitter.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 30.  See glitter
     in Skeat.