glime

== English == === Alternative forms === glyme (obsolete) === Etymology === Of uncertain origin. Probably from Middle English glimme (“radiance, brightness”) (whence glim), Scots glim (“glance, glimpse”) or Norwegian Nynorsk glim (“glimpse, glimmer”), all from Proto-Germanic *glīmô. Compare glim, gleam, glimmer, glimpse. The noun is derived from the verb. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡlaɪm/ Rhymes: -aɪm Homophone: glyme === Verb === glime (third-person singular simple present glimes, present participle gliming, simple past and past participle glimed) (intransitive, UK dialectal) To glance (at); to look sideways. [from 17th c.] === Noun === glime (plural glimes) (intransitive, UK dialectal) A sideways glance. [from late 19th c.] === Further reading === “glime, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. “glime, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.