glimflashy

comparative more glimflashy · superlative most glimflashy · alternative glim-flashy · alternative glimflashey · alternative glimflashly · alternative glimflushly

1. archaicfigurativelyslangAngry

   "Dewhurst gone all glimflashy on me."¶ Pete took a long glug of his beer. "What's he mad about?"

   2014, Elizabeth Boyce, Honor Among Thieves (The Honorables; 1)

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   "What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."

   1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 82, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 385

   "Glimflashy, he was, saying we was all dicked in the nob or else we should be bummed, laced up in darbies, and tossed in the bilboes. Oh, gloomy hour—what a brangle."

   1985, Kasey Michaels, The Savage Miss Saxon (Alphabet Regency Romance; 5)

   Synonyms: angry