glim
Plural: glims
Noun
- A light or a lamp, especially in informal or slang usage.
- Brightness; splendour.
- A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
- 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).
Verb
- To brand on the hand.
- To illuminate.
- To see; to observe.
Examples
- The glim from the low-battery phone screen was barely enough to see the Scrabble board.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 7
glim: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglim: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glim: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
glim: valid Words With Friends Word