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glimmery en · ADJ

Etymology

From glimmer + -y.

Meanings

1. Glimmering; shimmery.
   • Silver-faced ribbons / A silver and rose one—or silver and orchid—or silver and blue! They are the loveliest, softest, glimmeriest things—and so rich, too. 1924 January 18, “The Emporium”, in The Bulletin, volume 137, number 89, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
   • MARIAH CAREY CAN GLIMMER UNTIL SHE DROPS. WE DON’T CARE. RON PROUSE SHOWS YOU HOW TO OUT-GLOW THE GLIMMERIEST, IF YOU’RE PREPARED TO GLOW, GLIMMER AND JUST GENERALLY ANNOY YOUR NEIGHBOURS. GO THE GLOWCOMOTIVE! 2003 April, Ron Prouse, “Macase Glowy Door Mod”, in Ben Mansill, editor, Atomic: Maximum Power Computing, number 27, Redfern, N.S.W.: AJB Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88:
   • Given enough cold rain, a gray dusk that is fast glooming into black night, a pair of wet shoes, a skipped luncheon, a longing for people who are under the sod and a home that is only a memory, and the vaguest, glimmeriest bit of auld lang syne becomes in a twinkling a rampant friendship. 1913 August, Ida M. Evans, “The One-Tenth”, in The Green Book Magazine: A Magazine of the Passing Show, volume X, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: Story-Press Corporation, →OCLC, page 285, column 2:
   • Light, fresh and evanescent, they are suffused with the glimmery yellowness of East End light; it’s not quite yellow or white, but a color somewhere in between. 2009 June 7, Benjamin Genocchio, “The Glimmer of East End Light”, in New York Times:

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