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gliff
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English
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Etymology
Compare Middle English glyffen (“to give a glancing look; to become startled or frightened”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gliff (plural gliffs)
- (Scotland, archaic) A quick glance.
- (Scotland, archaic) An unexpected view of something startling.
- (Scotland, archaic) A sudden fright.
- (Scotland, archaic) A short moment.
- 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 207:
- [W]ill ye come out and speak just a gliff to ane that has mony thanks to gi'e ye?— […] Wad ye but come out a gliff, man, or but say ye're listening?— […]
Related terms
- giffle (East Anglia)
Verb
gliff (third-person singular simple present gliffs, present participle gliffing, simple past and past participle gliffed)
- (archaic, Scotland, transitive) To glimpse.
References
- “gliff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Welsh
Noun
gliff
- soft mutation of cliff
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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