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glymmer

glymmer noun: fire.

Noun

glymmer (plural glymmers)

  1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) Fire.
    • Dimber damber fare thee well, / Palliards all thou didst excel, / And thy jocky bore the bell, / Glymmer on it never fell.1849, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 414

Forms of glymmer

pluralglymmers

Origin of glymmer

Variant of glimmer.

Questions about glymmer

What does glymmer mean?
Glymmer means fire.
What part of speech is glymmer?
Glymmer is a noun.
What is the plural of glymmer?
The plural of glymmer is glymmers.

Words near glymmer in the dictionary

  1. Glyfada
  2. glyhexamide
  3. glyme
  4. glymes
  5. glymidine sodium
  6. glymmer
  7. glymmers
  8. Glymph
  9. glymphatic
  10. glymphatics
  11. Glymphs

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