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Gliff   Listen
noun
Gliff  n.  
1.
A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
A moment: as, for a gliff. (Scot.)






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"Gliff" Quotes from Famous Books



... And you look fleyed: there's nothing here to scare you: We're quiet folk at Krindlesyke. Come, mother, Have you no word of welcome for the lass, That you gape like a foundered ewe at us? What ghost Has given you a gliff, and set you chittering? Come, shake yourself, before I rax your bones; And give my bride the welcome due to her— My bride, the lady I have made my wife. Poor lass, ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

... Saturday. The next rising sun would shine on the Sabbath. Ah, what a case I was in! I could mostly have drowned myself, had I not been frighted. What could I do? My love had vanished like lightning; but oh, I was in a terrible gliff! Instead of gundy, I sold my thrums to Mrs Walnut for a penny, with which I bought at the counter a sheet of paper and a pen; so that in the afternoon I wrote out a letter to the minister, telling him what I had been given to hear, and begging him, for the sake of mercy, not to believe ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir



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