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glope

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
glope
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.

Intransitive verb

noun

Astonishment; awe; fear.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupaną (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: glopen, glápa, *glupaną, *gʰlub(ʰ)-

Usage

Inflected Forms

glopes (present, singular) gloping (participle, present) gloped (participle, past) gloped (past) glop (alternative) glape (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

gloppen

Questions

What does glope mean?
To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.
Where does glope come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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