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glint

UK/ɡlɪnt/ US/ˈɡlɪnt/ rare archaic obsolete
verb (2) noun (2)

verb

1.

be shiny, as if wet

  • “His eyes were glistening”
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2.

throw a glance at; take a brief look at

  • “She only glanced at the paper”
  • “I only peeked--I didn”
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noun

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • glint in the milkman's eye

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