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240 and milk (for the between and  bursten, see under bursten). “gloggo” must be cognate with , in a similar sense; see ,

glukast [glūkast, gᶅū-], glukasti [glukas·ti],, 1) a large heap; quantity, of potatoes, baked in embers; a g. o’ taatis [‘potatoes’]: (glukast and -kasti); he “laid in” a , he put a large quantity of potatoes into the embers (to be baked): 2) a very large portion of food; too much fodder; to gi’e de coo a at de ane time and starve her at de tidder [‘other’], to give the cow too much fodder one day and starve her the next: [gᶅūkast]. 3) a snack, light repast, potato-mash, or potatoes dipped in cod-liver oil; also in a wider sense: a meal taken by hungry persons, unable to wait for the regular meal-time; “he canno [‘-not’] wait lang [‘long’]; he is on wi’ his  again”.  [glūkast]. — Meanings 2 and 3 seem to presuppose an  *glúp-kǫstr. For the first part of the  see ante,, ; with   in sense of a heap, quantity,   kǫstr (kast-), , a heap of objects flung together. With  to  1 there might, however, also be supposed an  *glóð-kǫstr, a heap of embers raked together (in which something is baked).

gluks [gloks], gloks [glɔks], glugs [glogs], glogs [glɔgs, glȯgs],, a thick mass: a) gruel; in the of oatmeal stirred in hot water, = ; sometimes also ( in ) a mass mixed of meal and (whey and water). Often used as a disparaging of too thick milk-pottage, regular  . In  of lumps in porridge; “du lets (is lettin’) it a’ [‘all’] geng [‘go’] i’, ”, you are  letting the porridge get lumpy (you are not stirring the porridge well); b) a thick, muddy mass. and [glȯgs]; in, adhesive, of a moist mass. — gluks and gloks: glugs and glogs: [glogs, glȯgs: ; elsewhere alternating with “glɔgs”]. glogs: and  [glȯgs]. — kleksa and klyssa (under klessa and klysa respectively),, a soft lump or mass; klecks,, a smudge.  appears to be a *kluks(a) from *klyksa; either from *klaks(a) or ,
 * kluks(a), *klyksa. — See and

glum [glūm (glô$n$m)],, to look or be suspicious; to suspect, to g. upon a ting, to have a suspicion of something being not quite right, that there is something wanting; I as muckle, I thought as much. Also in the “to ”; gluma,, to scowl (R.), glyma,, to look morose, also to have a sly look; gloum, gloom, , to look morose or sullen.

glums$n. and w.$ [glo‘ms],, a pit; hollow; depression, in sand, in sandy ground; a sandy g.. Either for * ( below, ) and, in that case, the same word as glufsa,, a narrow ravine, or to be classed with glumstra, , a narrow, dark defile.

glums$h$ [glo‘ms (glo‘mps)],, 1) a snap at something with one’s mouth, a greedy bite; to mak’ or tak’ a g. 2) an angry flaring up at someone; a snappish yelp; an angry, rough address; he got op [‘up’] in a g., he flared up at me in a rage; he ga’e a g. at me, a) it (the dog) gave an angry yelp at me; b) he treated me with a curt and rough address. 3) a muttered, indistinct remark or speech . “glo‘ms” is the usual ; glo‘mps:  See ,