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glim
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)
- (obsolete) brightness; splendour
- (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
- (archaic, slang) An eye.
- (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
- (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
- (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea
- (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)
- (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.
- (dated, slang) To illuminate.
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative of glimmen
- 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)
- glimpse
- glimmer
- glitter
Etymology 2
Verb
glim
- imperative of glime
- (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
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glimpse
English
Alternative forms
- glinse
- glimse (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier glimse, from Middle English glimsen (“to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes”), akin to Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”), Middle High German glinsen (“to shine, glimmer”), Middle Dutch glinsen and Middle Low German glinsen, glintzen, glinzen (“to shine, shimmer”), Dutch glinsteren (“to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?mps/
- Rhymes: -?mps
Noun
glimpse (plural glimpses)
- A brief look, glance, or peek.
- 1798, Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend
- Here hid by shrub-wood, there by glimpses seen.
- Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
- 1798, Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend
- A sudden flash.
- A faint idea; an inkling.
Translations
Verb
glimpse (third-person singular simple present glimpses, present participle glimpsing, simple past and past participle glimpsed)
- (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.
- I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
- (intransitive) To appear by glimpses.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
Synonyms
- perceive, notice, detect, espy, spot, catch sight of
Translations
Anagrams
- megilps
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