Citations:glom

English citations of glom

stare?

• 1945, Manning Long, Short Shrift:

  She glommed at herself from every angle that could be achieved by twisting her neck, backing off from the mirror with her hands on her overalled hips and tossing back the tumble of dark curls that, like Birdie's, lay thick and hot […]

• 2015 April 14, A.K. Ashic, Book One of Weird and Wacky Tales & Other Such Nonsense, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

  Its black, withered-up, pinholes for eyes glommed at little Isabel. And with great anticipation it began to speak. “Why Gelp, that's a fine fat little one you have there. You always find the good ones. Are you on your way to market […]"

• 1994 September 1, Rex Stout, Three Witnesses, Crimeline, →ISBN, page 190:

  I apologized for disturbing her and said I would deeply appreciate it if she would let me take a picture of a painting […] It would have been a pleasure, and also instructive, to do a little glomming at the rugs and furniture and other miscellaneous objects, especially the dozen or more pictures on the walls, but that would have to wait. She went across to a picture near the far end, […]

• 2021 December 3, Jiří Kratochvil, The Vow: A Requiem for the Fifties, Glagoslav Publications, →ISBN:

  […] at last, he would be using his Leica again, […] to shamelessly strip them to their underclothes in an attempt to eternise them in flagranti, after which, in his darkroom, he would seen what intimate details would emerge from the developing pans, captured by his camera... and perhaps he would play with those intimate details under the enlarger... (The private eye had his own private collection of intimate details, worked up by the enlarger. Should anyone take those large format obscenities in hand, they'd never guess that he was glomming at a stable of prominent highly placed promiscuous mares.)

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• 2012 February 2, Sally Warner, EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken, Penguin, →ISBN, page 31:

  And I'll have to do the same sneaking away and glomming at lunch, too. And at recess. And after school. For three more days. Glomming is going to take all my attention. I sure hope Ms. Sanchez doesn't expect me to learn anything […]

clump?

• 2009 August 11, Nancy Grace, The Eleventh Victim, Hachette Books, →ISBN:

  Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown. Hailey later heard they, too, had divorced. Standing there, facing Leonard's steely gaze and imposing figure, Hailey had no problem […]

• 2012 06, Maxamilium, Disaggregated Angels: Sublime Poetic Justice, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 29:

  Mature in their relative states, the uncorrupted glommed at the foot of sands waterlogged by the drift far off the shallow coast, and there empty are all in the quest for life, menial or other! Ferry the legions of souls from ship to […]

• 2013 November 11, Susan Kiernan-Lewis, The Irish End Games, Books 1-3, Susan Kiernan-Lewis:

  The following day when Fiona had gone to pour the poteen into a smaller bottle so that she could use the bigger one to store cooking oil, nearly a half a dozen undissolved aspirin tablets were glommed at the bottom of the bottle.

to latch onto, to seize upon (figuratively / non-physically)

• 2008 December 31, Merritt Abrash, Things in Heaven and Earth, Author House, →ISBN, page 274:

  Winslow glommed at once onto the benefits of such an arrangement. “So I would set the terms, conditions, and whatever fee I chose to pay myself?” “You catch on quick!” said the cuddly clerk impishly.

• 2010 August 1, Linda O. Johnston, Not a Moment Too Soon, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 98:

  known what she was thinking, for his mind had glommed at the same time onto the same possibility: that Margo's grumpy but otherwise seemingly harmless, neighbor, whom they had interviewed before, could, after all, be the kidnapper.

take, seize? slickly (figuratively?) siphon?

• 2002 December 3, Duane Swierczynski, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons, Penguin, →ISBN, page 86:

  A 39-year-old scammer in California glommed at least $10,000 from 16 pet owners who'd wired him money, but never saw their beloved furry friends in return. Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, would be ashamed.

• 2011 June 22, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand: Underworld USA 2, Vintage, →ISBN:

  A guy glommed a mug shot. Some guys glommed some tales. Such as: Arden went through men. Arden had a husband. Said hubby was a Teamster. Said hubby ran the K.C . local. Said hubby had accounting skills. Said hubby went to school in […]