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Glimflashy

adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Angry archaic, figuratively, slang

    ""What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn.""

Etymology

17th century. First attested in Elisha Coles' An English Dictionary (1676). From glim (“eye”) + flashy (“flashing”). Figurative of someone's eyes flashing with anger.

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