gliffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɪf/
• 韻: -ɪf
• Homophone: glyph

名詞

gliff (複数形 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.
   • 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], OCLC 230697985, page 207:

     [W]ill ye come out and speak just a gliff to ane that has mony thanks to gi'e ye?— […] Wad ye but come out a gliff, man, or but say ye're listening?— […]

関連する語

• giffle (East Anglia)

動詞

gliff (三人称単数 現在形 gliffs, 現在分詞 gliffing, 過去形および過去分詞形 gliffed)

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