glim
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glim
- /ɡlɪm/ UK
Rhymes with -ɪm
Where it comes from
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.
noun glims
- Brightness; splendour.
- A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. 'Let's have a glim,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your legs if you do!'
- An eye.
- A pair of glasses or spectacles.
- A look; a glimpse.
- Gonorrhea.
- Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging). Tayler Tom lent me a shillin wish I send inklosed and yu must porn sumthing for anuther shilling and get Joe the Loryer to rite a fake for William not a glim (loss by fire) but a brakd say as e ad a hors fell downe with the mad staggurs an broke all is plates and dishes an we are starvin you can sa
verb glims · glimming · glimmed
- To brand on the hand. Profligate women were glimm'd for that villany.
- To illuminate.
- To see; to observe. About 9 o'clock he showed up and he knew me the moment he glimmed me.
