What does glimflashy mean?
Glimflashy means (archaic, slang, figurative) Angry.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic, slang, figurative) Angry.
"What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."
"Glimflashy, he was, saying we was all dicked in the nob or else we should be bummed, laced up in darbies, and tossed in the bilboes. Oh, gloomy hour—what a brangle."
"Dewhurst gone all glimflashy on me."¶ Pete took a long glug of his beer. "What's he mad about?"
Use glimflashy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glimflashy means (archaic, slang, figurative) Angry.
Common synonyms include angry.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."
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