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glope

glope

English

Alternative forms

  • glop
  • glape (Scotland)

Verb

glope ‎(third-person singular simple present glopes, present participle gloping, simple past and past participle gloped)

  1. (intransitive, dialectal) To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.

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Noun

glope ‎(uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Astonishment; awe; fear.

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.

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