glim
/ɡlɪm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.57 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "'Let's have a glim,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your legs if you do!'"
- ""Come along here, I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way."
- "'Sure enough, they left their glim here,' said the fellow from the window."
- "Tayler Tom lent me a shillin wish I send inklosed and yu must porn sumthing for anuther shilling and get Joe the Loryer to rite a fake for William not a glim (loss by fire) but a brakd say as e ad a hors fell downe with the mad staggurs an broke all is plates and dishes an we are starvin you can sa that the children is got the mesuls[…]"
- "Profligate women were glimm'd for that villany."
- "About 9 o'clock he showed up and he knew me the moment he glimmed me."
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 *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵʰley-, glim, gleomu, *glim, *glimō
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɡlɪm/