Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗smooth and bright or translucent; glary
An intense, blinding light. · Showy brilliance; gaudiness. · An angry or fierce stare. · A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
To stare angrily. · To shine brightly. · To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid. · To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
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