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glimmer-gowks

glimmer-gowks is the plural of glimmer-gowk.

Meaning of glimmer-gowk

Noun

glimmer-gowk (plural glimmer-gowks)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) An owl.
    • '[E] sit like a great glimmer-gowk wi' 'is glasses athurt 'is noase, […]1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Village Wife; or, The Entail”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 75

Questions about glimmer-gowks

What is glimmer-gowks the plural of?
Glimmer-gowks is the plural of glimmer-gowk.

Words near glimmer-gowks in the dictionary

  1. gliming
  2. glimmed
  3. glimmer
  4. glimmer of hope
  5. glimmer-gowk
  6. glimmer-gowks
  7. glimmered
  8. glimmerer
  9. glimmerers
  10. glimmerier
  11. glimmeriest

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