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)
- 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
- 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 present | glisks |
|---|---|
| present participle | glisking |
| past participle | glisked |
| past | glisked |
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.
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