Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Glimmering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective shining softly and intermittently.

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  • adjective glimmering; shimmery

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective shining softly and intermittently

Etymologies

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glimmer +‎ -y

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Examples

  • But there is something in the essence of Chatroulette -- two strangers serendipitously matched for a small spell of time -- that has the glimmery feel of conversation, even if one of those strangers takes off his pants.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • But there is something in the essence of Chatroulette -- two strangers serendipitously matched for a small spell of time -- that has the glimmery feel of conversation, even if one of those strangers takes off his pants.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • But there is something in the essence of Chatroulette -- two strangers serendipitously matched for a small spell of time -- that has the glimmery feel of conversation, even if one of those strangers takes off his pants.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • But there is something in the essence of Chatroulette -- two strangers serendipitously matched for a small spell of time -- that has the glimmery feel of conversation, even if one of those strangers takes off his pants.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • The sound gleamed, sunlight on sea, a thousand glimmery water stars.

    The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010

  • It is so easily overlooked because of its simplicity and glimmery muscle, but there really is some solid story hidden away.

    The Music of Rocky IV | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • The sound gleamed, sunlight on sea, a thousand glimmery water stars.

    The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010

  • *            The shade was talking in that glimmery soft way shades talk and Hades smiled politely and he was all the while remembering an argument with Persephone in painful detail.

    Persephone 2009

  • * The shade was talking in that glimmery soft way shades talk and Hades smiled politely and he was all the while remembering an argument with Persephone in painful detail.

    Persephone Andrea Lawlor 2009

  • Their rugs and and especially their vases are so much more subtle than the glimmery sic ornate of their Arab neighbors.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Glenn Greenwald 2007

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