glope

English

Alternative forms

• glop
• glape (Scotland)

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.

Verb

glope (third-person singular simple present glopes, present participle gloping, simple past and past participle gloped)

1. (intransitive, dialectal) To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.

Related terms

• gloppen

Noun

glope (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Astonishment; awe; fear.

Anagrams

• golpe, pegol, pelog