glisk

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English glissen.

Noun

glisk (plural glisks)

  1. A glimpse, glance, look.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      It seems that the young Heriotside, riding by one day, stopped to speir something or other, and got a glisk of Ailie's face which caught his fancy.
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    • 2018 May 10, Ashley Douglas, “'It’s mair o a comment nor a question …'”, in The National:
      The moderator gies an apologetic glisk tae the ither audience memmers wi their hauns hingin in the air as they ettle, wioot muckle success, tae bring this soliloquy tae a stap an pit aabody oot o their misery.
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