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Is glim a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word glim is a Scrabble US word. The word glim is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is glim a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word glim is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

G2L1I1M3

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4-letter words (1 found)

GLIM,

3-letter words (3 found)

LIG,MIG,MIL,

2-letter words (3 found)

GI,LI,MI,

You can make 7 words from glim according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of glim

glim lgim gilm iglm ligm ilgm glmi lgmi gmli mgli lmgi mlgi giml igml gmil mgil imgl migl limg ilmg lmig mlig imlg milg

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Definitions and meaning of glim

glim

Etymology

From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡlɪm/
  • Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

glim (countable and uncountable, plural glims)

  1. (obsolete) Brightness; splendour.
  2. (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
  3. (archaic, slang) An eye.
  4. (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
  5. (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
  6. (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea.
  7. (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

Derived terms

  • (eye): glimflashy (“angry”)

Verb

glim (third-person singular simple present glims, present participle glimming, simple past and past participle glimmed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.
  2. (dated, slang) To illuminate.
  3. (dated, slang) To see; to observe.

References

  • John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “glim”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 153–155.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪm

Verb

glim

  1. inflection of glimmen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse [Term?], whence also English glim; from Proto-Germanic *glīmô (“shine, splendor”).

Noun

glim m or n (definite singular glimen or glimet, indefinite plural glimar or glim, definite plural glimane or glima)

  1. glimpse
  2. glimmer
  3. glitter

Etymology 2

Verb

glim

  1. imperative of glime
  2. (non-standard since 1938) present tense of glime

References

  • “glim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ʒlīmōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[3], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 136

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