English Explanatory Dictionary

glisky

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. shining, shimmering; bright or flashing (of the sky after rain, particularly in summer)
  2. bright, sunny (of weather, sunny intervals between dull periods)

Word forms

glisky gliskier more glisky gliskiest most glisky

Etymology

Related to Scots glisk (“to glance, glimpse; to give a transient gleam”), and Shetlandic dialect of English glisk (“gleam of sunlight through cloud; a glow of heat from a fire”). Also Northern English glissy (“shiny, glistening”). Further etymology unclear: either from Old English glisian (“to glitter”) with diminutive suffix -ky, and cognate with English glitter and glisten, or hypothetical loan word from Old Norse *gliskr (“shimmering”), cf: Norwegian Nynorsk glisa (“to gleam, flash, glisten”), but note neither Cleasby & Vigfusson nor Zoëga list any such word. Shetlandic glisk possibly inherited from Norn (hence Old Norse), or from Scots (hence Old English).

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