glaum

n. 一瞥 vt. 摄取, 摸索, 瞥见

词形变化

glaums 三单 glauming 现在分词 glaumed 过去式 glaumed 过去分词

别名

glawm gloom glom

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To grasp or snatch (at), usually feebly or ineffectually; to grope (at) with the hands, as in the dark.

    爱尔兰 苏格兰
  2. 2.

    To search (for something).

    方言
  3. 1.

    To look sullen or sad; scowl, frown.

    苏格兰
  4. 2.

    To look (at), to stare (at).

词源

Alteration of dialectal clam, claum (“to grope or grasp ineffectually, snatch”), from Middle English *clammen, *clemmen, from Old English clæmman, clemman, from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan, from Proto-Germanic *klamjaną. In some senses, likely influenced by clamber. Compare dialectal glaump, glamp (“to grasp, snatch at, clutch, grope", also "gulp”), Scots clam, claum (“to grope or grasp ineffectually, snatch”), Norwegian klemme (“to seize with claws”), Middle High German klemmen (“to squeeze”). Doublet of glom. Related also to English clamp.

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