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Rh glont$4$ [glȯ‘ᶇt (glȯi‘nt)],, a badly sewn and badly shaped garment; dat is just a g. Doubtless the same word as ,

glonter,, see ,

glopen, glupen [glop$h$ɩn], , gluttonous; greedy; hungry. ? glopen,, voracious, from glop,, a) a gulp, mouthful; b) a glutton. ,

glopen [glɔpən], of , , to swallow; he was it, he had swallowed it.

glopni,, see ,

†gloss (glosj)$ə$ [glȯᶊ (glȯᶊᶊ)], , 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, ). Is the same word as klossa and klyssa (klysa),, a soft mass. See ,, with a similar change of initial k to g, which is found in several Norn words. The form, might, however, be ; note glush, , anything in a state of pulp; snow, when beginning to melt.

glossgloss [sic] (glosj)(glosj) [sic]$1$ [glȯᶊ (glȯᶊᶊ)], , a large portion of food, a very abundant meal.  from through assimilation of ns to ss; see , 1.

glotning,, see.

glotti [glɔti] and glutti [gloti], , an opening in a rock; a rent; small cleft; a in a rock; a great (rent) in a coat or in a pair o’ troosers [‘trousers’]. [glȯi‘t]: In  , also means a narrow passage, partly = $2$, 1. From  is reported [glåit, glåi‘t] in a similar sense: an opening; passage; (narrow) interstice; obsolete as a real common noun, but used as a place-name, almost al- most on the border of a common noun: “de  i’ de Sund”, denoting a narrow strait between two islets, named “de Sooth [‘south’]-holms o’ Widwik”. “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”. — glott,,  and , glutt, glytt,, an opening; interstice; a rent. — $s$,
 * [glåt (glå‘t)] and *

glover,, see ,

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

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

glubet [glūbət],, very desirous of food, very hungry; a g. dog. , From ,

glubien [glū··biən·],, a glutton, (intensive) in the “glutton-g.” *glúpingr. See, In gluping, , is found in a sense (a fine fellow: R.).

“glug”,, see $s.-w.$,

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