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glift

glift is the alternative form of gliff.

Meaning of gliff

Noun

gliff (plural gliffs)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A quick glance.
  2. (Scotland, archaic) An unexpected view of something startling.
  3. (Scotland, archaic) A sudden fright.
  4. (Scotland, archaic) A short moment.
    • [W]ill ye come out and speak just a gliff to ane that has mony thanks to gi'e ye?— […] Wad ye but come out a gliff, man, or but say ye're listening?— […]1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...

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Forms of glift

pluralglifts

Questions about glift

What is glift the alternative form of?
Glift is the alternative form of gliff.

Words near glift in the dictionary

  1. gliflozin
  2. gliflozins
  3. gliflumide
  4. glifozin
  5. glifozins
  6. glift
  7. glifts
  8. glike
  9. glikes
  10. glim
  11. glime

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