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glimflashy

adj

Etymology

17th century. First attested in Elisha Coles' An English Dictionary (1676). From glim (“eye”) + flashy (“flashing”). Figurative of someone's eyes flashing with anger.

  1. derived from flasshen
  2. suffixed as flashy — “flash + y”
  3. compounded as glimflashy — “glim + flashy”

Definitions

  1. 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?"

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