/ɡlaɪm/
OriginOf 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.
- UK, dialectal, intransitiveTo glance (at); to look sideways.
“He was gliming at her from closer range now, and in her position—for he held her still—she could not help but glime back. He looked so humble—penitent for once, yet reproachful, his own eyes moist, an”
“And on Sunday evenings, while the Primitives were singing a hymn outside their chapel before going in for service, she would be tripping past, lightly shod, and wearing a hat with an ostrich feather, ”
“A silence falls in the four-wheeler for the rest of the road home. Felix looking straight ahead and concentrating on his driving. The girls asleep in each other's arms on the back seat. And me occasio”
- UK, dialectal, intransitiveA sideways glance.
“‘Aw, ye wouldn't think it's true, would ye, now?’ said Ned, with a wink at Dan and a ‘glime’ at Davy.”
Formsglimes(present, singular, third-person) · gliming(participle, present) · glimed(participle, past) · glimed(past) · glyme(alternative, obsolete) · glimes(plural)