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動詞

glisk (third-person singular simple present glisks, present participle glisking, simple past and past participle glisked)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.
   • 2013 October 17, Josephine Johnson, Winter Orchard and Other Stories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     […] to watch the young fish go by glisking, and I thought to look a fish in the eye for the expression there and see if a wild fish were stupid or not. But no fish stopped and I thought of the pie again, in my mind seeing the brown peaks rising up where they would be […]

   • 2021 November 23, Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel, Dell, →ISBN:

     […] the tinge of firelight glisking in her hair.

2. (Scotland, Northern England) To glance.
   • 1836, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 429:

     As the piercing e'en o' Sir David Grame; / She glisked wi' her e'e where these e'en should be, / But the raven had been there afore she came. / There's a cloud that fa's darker than the night, / An' darkly on that lady it came;  […]

   • 2004, i, The Last Song of Dusk, Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 238:

     ... like a secret. As he stood lone as a lighthouse, Sherman's eyes glisked through the toff junta he'd seen before only in the society pages of the Bombay Chronicle: the Mandalays; Eric Claude Fromm, the inventor of the world's first […]