glair
See also: g'laïr
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle English glaire, from Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”).
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editNoun
editglair (countable and uncountable, plural glairs)
- Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
- 2021, Hana Videen, The Wordhord, Profile Books, published 2022, page 65:
- If you beat an egg white until a froth forms on the surface, the clear liquid below the froth is glair.
- Any viscous, slimy substance.
- 1962, The Fishing Gazette, page 276:
- Some rain fell during the past few days but had little effect on the river which remains very low and full of glair.
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will.
- A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.
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editTranslations
editegg-white — see also albumen
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Verb
editglair (third-person singular simple present glairs, present participle glairing, simple past and past participle glaired)
- To smear with egg-white.
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