glint
pronunciation
How to pronounce glint in British English:
UK [glɪnt]
How to pronounce glint in American English:
US [ɡlɪnt]
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- Noun:
- a momentary flash of light
- a spatially localized brightness
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- Verb:
- be shiny, as if wet
- throw a glance at; take a brief look at
Word Origin
- glint (n.)
- "a gleam," 1826 (with a possible isolated use from 1540s in OED), from glint (v.).
- glint (v.)
- 1787 (intransitive), from Scottish, where apparently it survived as an alteration of glent, from Middle English glenten "gleam, flash, glisten" (mid-15c.), from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian gletta "to look," dialectal Swedish glinta "to shine"), from the group of Germanic *gl- words meaning "smooth; shining; joyous," from PIE *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass (n.)). Reintroduced into literary English by Burns. Related: Glinted; glinting.
Example
- 1. The future always put a glint in my dad 's eyes .
- 2. He said with that cheeky glint in his eye .
- 3. Across the river , the corrugated-iron roofs of a prefabricated barracks glint in the midday sun .
- 4. He really is a handsome beast though , there 's always a bit of a glint in his eye when you go near him .
- 5. He said with a slightly crazed glint in his eyes .