Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Astonishment; fear.
- To gaze in alarm; be terrified.
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- verb intransitive, dialectal To
gaze in alarm; be terrified;stare . - noun obsolete
Astonishment ;awe ;fear .
Etymologies
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From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa ("to stare vacantly"), from Proto-Germanic *glupanan (“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.
Examples
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Here in America, we can glope about buying any type of comics.
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“The person standing on the surface of the ground or floor Cannot injure the heavenly bodies or any highly hanging Lamp or glope by ejecting his spit from his mouth upward it will only injure his own face without attempting of Heavenly bodies ” &c.
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"The person standing on the surface of the ground or floor Cannot injure the heavenly bodies or any highly hanging Lamp or glope by ejecting his spit from his mouth upward it will only injure his own face without attempting of Heavenly bodies -- &c.
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