gloam

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from gloaming.

Noun

gloam (plural gloams)

  1. (obsolete) Twilight; clipping of gloaming.

Verb

gloam (third-person singular simple present gloams, present participle gloaming, simple past and past participle gloamed)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
  2. (intransitive) To be sullen or morose.

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “gloam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Cimbrian

Verb

gloam (past participle gegloabet)

  1. to believe
  2. to think

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
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