glimms

English

Noun

glimms pl (plural only)

1. (slang) eyes
   • 1849, John Edward Walsh, Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago, page 87:

     I tought de life ud leave Mosey Creathorn’s glimms, when he saw his bitch in de air; […]

References

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Glimms”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.