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Related to Scots glisk (“to glance, glimpse; to give a transient gleam”), and Shetlandic dialect of English glisk (“gleam of sunlight through cloud; a glow of heat from a fire”). Also Northern English glissy (“shiny, glistening”).
Further etymology unclear: either from 古期英語 glisian (“to glitter”) with diminutive suffix -ky, and cognate with English glitter and glisten, or hypothetical loan word from Old Norse *gliskr (“shimmering”), cf: Norwegian Nynorsk glisa (“to gleam, flash, glisten”), but note neither Cleasby & Vigfusson nor Zoëga list any such word. Shetlandic glisk possibly inherited from Norn (hence Old Norse), or from Scots (hence 古期英語).
glisky (comparative gliskier or more glisky, superlative gliskiest or most glisky)
Bell, William & Betsy (2017), Cumbrian English, Abson Books
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Dictionaries of the Scots Language / Dictionars o the Scots Leid (1956), Entry for glisk, accessible online via url: https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/glisk, retrieved 14th November 2025
Fell Brewery Cumbria (2023), Glisky, url: https://fellbrewery.co.uk/glisky-beer-or-venue-first/, dated 28th July 2023
Hall, Sarah (2015), Gloaming, contribution to article: From plitter to drabbletail: the words we love, on The Guardian, url: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/29/from-plitter-to-drabbletail-words-loved-lost, dated 29th May 2015
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