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glope

glope verb: to gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.

Verb

glope (third-person singular simple present glopes, present participle gloping, simple past and past participle gloped)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.

Noun

glope (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Astonishment; awe; fear.

Forms of glope

third-person singular presentglopes
present participlegloping
past participlegloped
pastgloped
alternative formglop
alternative formglape

Origin of glope

From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupaną (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.

Questions about glope

What does glope mean?
Glope means to gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.
What part of speech is glope?
Glope can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of glope?
The past tense of glope is gloped.

Words near glope in the dictionary

  1. gloops
  2. gloopy
  3. Gloor
  4. Gloors
  5. glop
  6. glope
  7. gloped
  8. glopes
  9. gloping
  10. glopped
  11. gloppen

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