different between glew vs glee

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English glew, glu, etc.

Noun

glew (countable and uncountable, plural glews)

1. Obsolete form of glue.
   • 1764, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1 (page 385)

     When the painting is originally on wood, it must be first detached from the ceiling or wainscot where it was fixed; and the surface of it covered with a linen cloth, cemented to it by means of glew […]

Etymology 2

Formed on the analogy of know, grow (and other verbs which are now weak in the standard such as crow, mow). Probably not from Early Middle English glew (“glowed”) or its ancestor Old English gl?ow (“glowed”), due to the long gap in attestation.

Verb

glew

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of glow

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French glu, from Late Latin gl?s, from Latin gl?ten, from Proto-Italic *gloiten.

Alternative forms

• glu, glue, glewe, gleu, glowe, glyw, glyu, gleuwe, gluwe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?liu?/

Noun

glew (plural glewes)

2. A adhesive or adherent; something that binds:
   1. glue; a substance designed to adhere two things together.
   2. birdlime; a trap or capturing mechanism.
   3. A tar or resin; any natural adherent.

Related terms

• glewen
• glewer
• glewy
• glewysch
• gluynge

Descendants

• English: glue
• Scots: glue

References

• “gleu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.

Etymology 2

Noun

glew

2. Alternative form of gleu.

Etymology 3

Verb

glew

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

Etymology 4

Verb

glew

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to glue”).

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?u?/

Adjective

glew (feminine singular glew, plural glewion, equative glewed, comparative glewach, superlative glewaf)

1. brave, bold

Synonyms

• (brave): gwrol, dewr

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English gle, from Old English gl?o, gl??, gl?ow, gl?w (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *gl?w? (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?lew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Old Norse gl? (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek ????? (khleú?, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gl?, IPA^(key): /?li?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

glee (countable and uncountable, plural glees)

1. (uncountable) Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

   Synonyms: merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat
2. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
3. (music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

glee (third-person singular simple present glees, present participle gleeing, simple past and past participle gleed)

1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Anagrams

• Egle, Lege, lege

Limburgish

Noun

glee f

1. something that is wet because it has been pasted together

Inflection

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

See also

• èpperglieëdjómme

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh?y- (“to cleave, stick”). Compare German klein, Dutch klein.

Adjective

glee

1. small