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Glim

//ɡlɪm// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Brightness; splendour. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable

    "'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!'"

  3. 3
    An eye. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
  4. 4
    A pair of glasses or spectacles. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
  5. 5
    A look; a glimpse. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Gonorrhea. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
  2. 7
    Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging). archaic, countable, slang, uncountable

    "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[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To brand on the hand. obsolete, transitive

    "Profligate women were glimm'd for that villany."

  2. 2
    To illuminate. dated, slang
  3. 3
    To see; to observe. dated, slang

    "About 9 o'clock he showed up and he knew me the moment he glimmed me."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.

Etymology 2

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 Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.

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