glim

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɡlɪm/ Rhymes: -ɪm === Noun === glim (countable and uncountable, plural glims) (obsolete) Brightness; splendour. (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. (archaic, slang) An eye. (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles. (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse. (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea. (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging). ==== Derived terms ==== (eye): glimflashy (“angry”) === Verb === glim (third-person singular simple present glims, present participle glimming, simple past and past participle glimmed) (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand. (dated, slang) To illuminate. (dated, slang) To see; to observe. === References === John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893), “glim”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 153–155. == Dutch == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɪm === Verb === glim inflection of glimmen: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology 1 === From Old Norse [Term?], whence also English glim; from Proto-Germanic *glīmô (“shine, splendor”). ==== Noun ==== glim m or n (definite singular glimen or glimet, indefinite plural glimar or glim, definite plural glimane or glima) glimpse glimmer glitter === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== glim imperative of glime (non-standard since 1938) present tense of glime === References === “glim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. Vladimir Orel (2003), “*ʒlīmōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 136