Glope

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Astonishment; awe; fear. obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare. dialectal, intransitive

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.

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