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glisk

glisk verb: to glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.

Verb

glisk (third-person singular simple present glisks, present participle glisking, simple past and past participle glisked)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.
    • […] to watch the young fish go by glisking, and I thought to look a fish in the eye for the expression there and see if a wild fish were stupid or not. But no fish stopped and I thought of the pie again, in my mind seeing the brown peaks rising up where they would be[…]2013 October 17, Josephine Johnson, Winter Orchard and Other Stories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
    • […] the tinge of firelight glisking in her hair.2021 November 23, Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel, Dell, →ISBN
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) To glance.
    • As the piercing e'en o' Sir David Grame; / She glisked wi' her e'e where these e'en should be, / But the raven had been there afore she came. / There's a cloud that fa's darker than the night, / An' darkly on that lady it came; […]1836, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 429
    • ... like a secret. As he stood lone as a lighthouse, Sherman's eyes glisked through the toff junta he'd seen before only in the society pages of the Bombay Chronicle: the Mandalays; Eric Claude Fromm, the inventor of the world's first[…]2004, i, The Last Song of Dusk, Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 238

Forms of glisk

third-person singular presentglisks
present participleglisking
past participleglisked
pastglisked

Questions about glisk

What does glisk mean?
Glisk means to glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.
What part of speech is glisk?
Glisk is a verb.
What is the past tense of glisk?
The past tense of glisk is glisked.

Words near glisk in the dictionary

  1. gliroid
  2. gliroids
  3. Glis
  4. glisentide
  5. glisindamide
  6. glisk
  7. glisked
  8. glisking
  9. glisks
  10. glisky
  11. glisolamide

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