gloaming
nounEtymology
From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). By surface analysis, gloom + -ing. Related to glow. The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."
Definitions
Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening
Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
- Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
- I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.
Sullenness
Sullenness; melancholy.
present participle and gerund of gloam
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA