Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To glance (at); to look sideways.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA sideways glance.
Of 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.
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