glimmery
glimmery adjective: glimmering; shimmery.
Adjective
glimmery (comparative glimmerier, superlative glimmeriest)
- Glimmering; shimmery.
- Given enough cold rain, a gray dusk that is fast glooming into black night, a pair of wet shoes, a skipped luncheon, a longing for people who are under the sod and a home that is only a memory, and the vaguest, glimmeriest bit of auld lang syne becomes in a twinkling a rampant friendship.1913 August, Ida M. Evans, “The One-Tenth”, in The Green Book Magazine: A Magazine of the Passing Show, volume X, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: Story-Press Corporation, →OCLC, page 285, column 2
- Silver-faced ribbons / A silver and rose one—or silver and orchid—or silver and blue! They are the loveliest, softest, glimmeriest things—and so rich, too.1924 January 18, “The Emporium”, in The Bulletin, volume 137, number 89, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 5, column 3
Forms of glimmery
| comparative | glimmerier |
|---|---|
| superlative | glimmeriest |
Origin of glimmery
From glimmer + -y.
Questions about glimmery
- What does glimmery mean?
- Glimmery means glimmering; shimmery.
- What part of speech is glimmery?
- Glimmery is an adjective.
Words near glimmery in the dictionary
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