Definition of "ilk"

ilk

/ɪlk/

adjective
not comparable
1. (Scotland and Northern England) Very; same.
  Quotations
  By semblaunt, was that ilke image
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
noun
plural ilks
1. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
  Quotations
  "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago […]
  1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906
  The cow is of the bovine ilk;One end is moo, the other, milk.
  1931, Ogden Nash, The Cow
  On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk.
  2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)