different between glim vs glam

English

Etymology

From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glim?, from Proto-Indo-European *??ley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?m/

Noun

glim (countable and uncountable, plural glims)

1. (obsolete) brightness; splendour
2. (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
3. (archaic, slang) An eye.
4. (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
5. (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
6. (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea
7. (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

Derived terms

• (eye): glimflashy (“angry”)

Verb

glim (third-person singular simple present glims, present participle glimming, simple past and past participle glimmed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.
2. (dated, slang) To illuminate.
3. (dated, slang) To see; to observe.

References

• Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues?^[3], volume 3, pages 153–155

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

glim

1. first-person singular present indicative of glimmen
2. imperative of glimmen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse [Term?], whence also English glim; from Proto-Germanic *gl?mô (“shine, splendor”).

Noun

glim m or n (definite singular glimen or glimet, indefinite plural glimar or glim, definite plural glimane or glima)

1. glimpse
2. glimmer
3. glitter

Etymology 2

Verb

glim

1. imperative of glime
2. (non-standard since 1938) present tense of glime

References

• “glim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Orel, Vladimir (2003) , “*?l?m?n”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 136

English

Etymology

Clipping of glamour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

glam (uncountable)

1. Glamour.
2. (music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.

   Synonym: glitter

Adjective

glam

1. Glamorous.

Verb

glam (third-person singular simple present glams, present participle glamming, simple past and past participle glammed)

1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.
   • 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Midwinter Break', Chapter 10, at p.204:

     He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole.

Usage notes

Usually used in the phrasal verb glam up.

See also

• glitz

Anagrams

• mGal

Spanish

Noun

glam m (plural glams)

1. glam