Meanings
nounglimmer-gowk (plural glimmer-gowks)
plural glimmer-gowks
- UKdialectalobsoleteAn owl.
'[E] sit like a great glimmer-gowk wi' 'is glasses athurt 'is noase, […]
1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Village Wife; or, The Entail”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 75
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