gliff

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare Middle English glyffen (“to give a glancing look; to become startled or frightened”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gliff (plural gliffs)

  1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A transient glance.
  2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) An unexpected view of something that startles one.
  3. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A sudden fright.
  4. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A short moment.

Verb

gliff (third-person singular simple present gliffs, present participle gliffing, simple past and past participle gliffed)

  1. (UK, Scotland, dialect, transitive) To glimpse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gliff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Welsh

Noun

gliff

  1. Soft mutation of cliff.

Mutation

Mutated forms of cliff
radical soft nasal aspirate
cliff gliff nghliff chliff

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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