English Explanatory Dictionary

glope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.
noun
  1. Astonishment; awe; fear.

Word forms

glope glopes gloping gloped glop glape

Etymology

From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupaną (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.

Related words

gloppen
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