English

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Etymology

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Variant of glimmer.

Noun

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glymmer (plural glymmers)

  1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) Fire.
    • 1849, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 414:
      Dimber damber fare thee well, / Palliards all thou didst excel, / And thy jocky bore the bell, / Glymmer on it never fell.