Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast.
- To terrify; astonish; surprise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Prov. Eng. To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive, Northern England, Scotland To be in
fear ;gaze inalarm orastonishment ; lookdowncast - verb transitive, Northern England, Scotland To
terrify ;astonish ;surprise .
Etymologies
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From Middle English glopnen, from Old Norse glúpna ("to frighten, grieve, look downcast"), from Proto-Germanic *glupnōnan (“to frighten, cause to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghlub(h)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glúpna ("to put to shame"). More at glope.
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Examples
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A pause before the intense guy cut in: The Word of the Day is gloppen.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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a young ewe; _gloppen_, to scare, terrify; _glare_, to stare, to glow;
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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