different between glim vs gloom

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

From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English gl?m (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *gl?m, from Proto-Germanic *gl?maz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?lu?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

gloom (usually uncountable, plural glooms)

1. Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet:

     Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.

2. A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
   • 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents:

     A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

4. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

Derived terms

• doom and gloom
• gloomies
• gloomily
• gloomy

Related terms

• gloam

Translations

Verb

gloom (third-person singular simple present glooms, present participle glooming, simple past and past participle gloomed)

1. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     The black gibbet glooms beside the way.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 189:

     Around all the dark forest gloomed.

2. (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
   • a. 1930, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady

     Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
3. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

   • A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.

4. (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.

   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     What sorrows gloomed that parting day.

5. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.