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glintily en · ADV

Etymology

From glinty + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a glinty manner.
   • Indolently bobbing, here came a boat: the one cap-and-fag bloke’s slow oarsplat, the other’s trailed line jigging glintily—[…] 2014, Christopher Jessop, chapter 4, in A Summer Break: A Novel, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire: Springboard Press, →ISBN, page 39:
   • The flowers, their roots glintily netted with spider-webs, nodded serenely over his long hands. 1921, Walter de la Mare, chapter 26, in Memoirs of a Midget, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, “Wanderslore” section, page 175:
   • In fact, Angela Lansbury’s bawdy, chattering, equivocal Granny—a super opportunity glintily grasped—is as likely to entertain young Rosaleen […] 1984 September 21, John Coleman, “Films”, in New Statesman, volume 108, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 3:

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