glim
English
Etymology
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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 glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.
Pronunciation
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Noun
glim (countable and uncountable, plural glims)
- (obsolete) brightness; splendour
- (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
- 1837, Charles Dickens, chapter 16, in Oliver Twist:
- '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!'
- 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick:
- "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.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 5, in Treasure Island:
- 'Sure enough, they left their glim here,' said the fellow from the window.
- (archaic, slang) An eye.
- (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
- (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
- (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea
- (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the 'Screevers,' or Writers of Begging-Letters and Petitions”, in London Labour and the London Poor[1], volume 1, page 312:
- 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 […]
Derived terms
- (eye): glimflashy (“angry”)
Verb
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- (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.
- 1714, Memoirs of the Right Villainous John Hall:
- Profligate women were glimm'd for that villany.
- (dated, slang) To illuminate.
- (dated, slang) To see; to observe.
- 1918, Tommy West, The Long, Long Trail in the World of Sport:
- About 9 o'clock he showed up and he knew me the moment he glimmed me.
- 1943 December 11, “Pipes for Pitchmen”, in Billboard[2], page 55:
- Heibers further states he glimmed the following on Maxwell Street on a Sunday morning […]
References
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “glim”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 153–155.
Dutch
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glim
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