What does glim mean?
Glim means (obsolete) Brightness; splendour..
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/ɡlɪm/ · noun
(obsolete) Brightness; splendour..
'Let's have a glim,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your legs if you do!'
"Come along here, I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way.
'Sure enough, they left their glim here,' said the fellow from the window.
Tayler Tom lent me a shillin wish I send inklosed and yu must porn sumthing for anuther shilling and get Joe the Loryer to rite a fake for William not a glim (loss by fire) but a brakd say as e ad a hors fell downe with the mad staggurs an broke all is plates and dishes an we are starvin you can sa that the children is got the mesuls[…]
Profligate women were glimm'd for that villany.
About 9 o'clock he showed up and he knew me the moment he glimmed me.
Heibers further states he glimmed the following on Maxwell Street on a Sunday morning[…]
Use glim when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glim means (obsolete) Brightness; splendour..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
'Let's have a glim,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your legs if you do!'
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