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glimflashy

glimflashy adjective: angry.

Adjective

glimflashy (comparative more glimflashy, superlative most glimflashy)

  1. (archaic, figuratively, slang) Angry
    • "What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 82, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 385
    • "Glimflashy, he was, saying we was all dicked in the nob or else we should be bummed, laced up in darbies, and tossed in the bilboes. Oh, gloomy hour—what a brangle."1985, Kasey Michaels, The Savage Miss Saxon (Alphabet Regency Romance; 5)
    Synonyms:
    angry

Synonyms of glimflashy

Forms of glimflashy

comparativemore glimflashy
superlativemost glimflashy
alternative formglim-flashy
alternative formglimflashey
alternative formglimflashly
alternative formglimflushly

Origin of glimflashy

17th century. First attested in Elisha Coles' An English Dictionary (1676). From glim (“eye”) + flashy (“flashing”). Figurative of someone's eyes flashing with anger.

Questions about glimflashy

What does glimflashy mean?
Glimflashy means angry.
What part of speech is glimflashy?
Glimflashy is an adjective.

Words near glimflashy in the dictionary

  1. glim
  2. glime
  3. glimed
  4. glimepiride
  5. glimes
  6. glimflashy
  7. gliming
  8. glimmed
  9. glimmer
  10. glimmer of hope
  11. glimmer-gowk

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