glim
Brightness; splendourBrightness; splendour.
Meaning
7 senses(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Brightness; splendour.
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)An eye.
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A pair of glasses or spectacles.
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A look; a glimpse.
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)Gonorrhea.
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).
Origin
From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further orFrom 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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Forms
plural: glimsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable