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glont⁴ [glȯ‘ᶇt (glȯi‘nt)], sb., a badly sewn and badly shaped garment; dat is just a g. Y^h. Doubtless the same word as klont (kloint), sb.; q.v.

glonter, sb., see glunta, etc.

glopen, glupen [glop^əɩn], adj., gluttonous; greedy; hungry. Nm.? No. glopen, adj., voracious, from glop, m., a) a gulp, mouthful; b) a glutton. Cf. glubet, adj.

glopen [glɔpən], perf. part. of glep, vb., to swallow; he was glopen it, he had swallowed it. Nm.

glopni, sb., see glupni, sb.

†gloss (glosj)¹ [glȯᶊ (glȯᶊᶊ)], sb., a pulp; hotch-potch; in a g.; de taatis [‘potatoes’] is gane [‘are gone’] i’ g.; puddle, in a g., in a sodden state (of a mass in a state of decomposition, muddy roads, etc.). S.Sh. Is the same word as No. klossa and klyssa (klysa), f., a soft mass. See gluks (gloks, glogs), sb., with a similar change of initial k to g, which is found in several Shetl. Norn words. The form gloss, glosj might, however, be L.Sc.; note L.Sc. glush, sb., anything in a state of pulp; snow, when beginning to melt.

gloss (glosj)² [glȯᶊ (glȯᶊᶊ)], sb., a large portion of food, a very abundant meal. Nm^s. Prob. from glons through assimilation of ns to ss; see glons, sb. 1.

glotning, sb., see glutning.

glotti [glɔti] and glutti [gloti], sb., an opening in a rock; a rent; small cleft; a glotti in a rock; a great glutti (rent) in a coat or in a pair o’ troosers [‘trousers’]. Wh. gloit [glȯi‘t]: Nm^s.-w.. In Nm^w. (Esh.), gloit also means a narrow passage, partly = glont¹, sb. 1. From U. is reported *glott [glåt (glå‘t)] and *gloit [glåit, glåi‘t] in a similar sense: an opening; passage; (narrow) interstice; obsolete as a real common noun, but used as a place-name, al-

most on the border of a common noun: “de Glott (Gloit) i’ de Sund”, denoting a narrow strait between two islets, named “de Sooth [‘south’]-holms o’ Widwik” (U^w.). “de Glott (Gloit) i’ de Sund” is the most prominent of the landmarks, by means of which a number of fishing-grounds are found, summed up under the name: “de Glott (Gloit) i’ de Sund”. — No. glott, m., f. and n., glutt, glytt, m., an opening; interstice; a rent. — Cf. glont¹, sb.

glover, sb., see gløver, sb.

glu [glū, gᶅū], vb., to glow, give light; to shine, esp. to emit a kind of phosphorescent light; cat’s een [‘eyes’] glus or is gluin [glūɩn, gᶅūɩn] i’ de dark; de emers [‘embers’] glus (is gluin); soor [‘sour’] fish glus (is gluin). Fe. O.N. glóa, vb., to glow; glitter.

glub [glūb (gᶅūb)], sb., 1) a gap; ravine. Y^h. [glūb]. 2) appetite, recorded as a tabu-word in the foll. exprs., in fishermen’s lang.: der’r nae [‘no’] g. on de fish, the fish will not bite. U. [gᶅūb]. 3) a greedy person, desirous of food; a glutton; greedy animal; partly as an intensive in the compd. “glutton-g.” Y. and Fe. [glūb]. — No. glup, m., a gap; ravine; glop, m., also in sense of a glutton.

glubet [glūbət], adj., very desirous of food, very hungry; a g. dog. Y., Fe. From glub, sb.

glubien [glū··biən·], sb., a glutton, (intensive) in the compd. “glutton-g.” Y^h. *glúpingr. See glub, sb. In No. gluping, m., is found in a diff. sense (a fine fellow: R.).

“glug”, sb., see gligg¹, sb.

gluggi [glog(g)i], sb., a small, round, flat cake, formerly baked in embers, but later toasted; commonly made of “bursten” (q.v.); a bursten-g. Du. Prob. the same word as Ork. gloggo, sb., a mixture of bursten