different between shimmery vs glimmery

shimmery

English

Etymology

From shimmer +? -y.

Adjective

shimmery (comparative more shimmery, superlative most shimmery)

  1. Shining with a veiled, trembling or intermittent light.
    Synonyms: ashimmer, shimmering
    • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog” in The Second Jungle Book, London: Macmillan, p. 187,[1]
      The length of the gorge on both sides was hung as it were with black shimmery velvet curtains, and Mowgli sank as he looked, for those were the clotted millions of the sleeping bees.
    • 2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Arrangers of Marriage” in The Thing Around Your Neck, New York: Knopf, p. 180,[2]
      [] Aunty Ada would base her prostitute judgment on Nia’s lipstick, a shimmery orange, and the eye shadow—similar to the shade of the lipstick—that clung to her heavy lids.

Derived terms

  • shimmeriness

Anagrams

  • misrhyme

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glimmery

English

Etymology

glimmer +? -y

Adjective

glimmery (comparative more glimmery, superlative most glimmery)

  1. glimmering; shimmery

glimmery From the web:

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