glint
Plural: glints
Noun
- a momentary flash of light
- a spatially localized brightness
- A short flash of light, usually when reflected off a shiny surface.
- A brief look; a glance.
Verb
Verb Forms: glinted, glinting, glints
- To shine with a brief, sudden flash of light.
- be shiny, as if wet
- throw a glance at; take a brief look at
- To flash or gleam briefly.
- To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
- To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
- To dry; to wither.
Adj
- Not sharp; dull.
Examples
- A glint in her eye suggested she had a high-scoring word on her Words With Friends rack.
- A wedding ring glinted on her finger.
- I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.
- The knife is glint.
- The sun glints grass and corn.
Origin / Etymology
15th century. Borrowed from Scots glint, from Middle English glenten (“to shine, gleam; flash”), probably from Old Norse *glenta, from Proto-Germanic *glantijaną, causitive of Proto-Germanic *glintaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Cognate with Danish glente, Swedish glänta, Norwegian Nynorsk gletta (“to peep, look”), Middle High German glinzen; compare also Swedish glinta (“to slip, slide, gleam, shine”), Swedish glimt (“flash, glint, glimpse”), Norwegian Nynorsk glanta, gletta (“to glide, slip”). Reintroduced into literary English by Robert Burns.
Scrabble Score: 6
glint: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglint: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glint: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary