glimmer-gowk

English

Noun

glimmer-gowk (plural glimmer-gowks)

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) An owl.
   • 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:

     '[E] sit like a great glimmer-gowk wi' 'is glasses athurt 'is noase, […]