glimms

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Noun

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glimms pl (plural only)

  1. (slang) eyes
    • 1849, John Edward Walsh, Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago, page 87:
      I tought de life ud leave Mosey Creathorn’s glimms, when he saw his bitch in de air; […]

References

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  • [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Glimms”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.
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