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gloppen

gloppen verb: to be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast.

Verb

gloppen (third-person singular simple present gloppens, present participle gloppening, simple past and past participle gloppened)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast
    • "O Job! if you will help me," exclaimed Mary, brightening up (though it was but a wintry gleam after all), "tell me what to say, when they question me; I shall be so gloppened,* I shan't know what to answer." / *Gloppened; terrified.1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2000
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To terrify; astonish; surprise.
    • A pause before the intense guy cut in: "The Word of the Day is gloppen. Verb, transitive and intransitive. … One. To surprise or astonish. Two. To be startled or astonished. Gloppen."2006, Jeremy Iverson, High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student, →ISBN, page 59

Forms of gloppen

third-person singular presentgloppens
present participlegloppening
past participlegloppened
pastgloppened

Origin of gloppen

From Middle English glopnen, from Old Norse glúpna (“to frighten, grieve, look downcast”), from Proto-Germanic *glupnōną (“to frighten, cause to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glúpna (“to put to shame”). More at glope.

Words formed from gloppen

  • glopnedly

Questions about gloppen

What does gloppen mean?
Gloppen means to be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast.
What part of speech is gloppen?
Gloppen is a verb.
What is the past tense of gloppen?
The past tense of gloppen is gloppened.

Words near gloppen in the dictionary

  1. glope
  2. gloped
  3. glopes
  4. gloping
  5. glopped
  6. gloppen
  7. gloppened
  8. gloppening
  9. gloppens
  10. gloppier
  11. gloppiest

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