glimmery

English

Etymology

From glimmer +‎ -y.

Adjective

glimmery (comparative glimmerier, superlative glimmeriest)

  1. Glimmering; shimmery.
    • 1913 August, Ida M. Evans, “The One-Tenth”, in The Green Book Magazine: A Magazine of the Passing Show, volume X, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: Story-Press Corporation, →OCLC, page 285, column 2:
      Given enough cold rain, a gray dusk that is fast glooming into black night, a pair of wet shoes, a skipped luncheon, a longing for people who are under the sod and a home that is only a memory, and the vaguest, glimmeriest bit of auld lang syne becomes in a twinkling a rampant friendship.
    • 1924 January 18, “The Emporium”, in The Bulletin, volume 137, number 89, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
      Silver-faced ribbons / A silver and rose one—or silver and orchid—or silver and blue! They are the loveliest, softest, glimmeriest things—and so rich, too.
    • 2003 April, Ron Prouse, “Macase Glowy Door Mod”, in Ben Mansill, editor, Atomic: Maximum Power Computing, number 27, Redfern, N.S.W.: AJB Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88:
      MARIAH CAREY CAN GLIMMER UNTIL SHE DROPS. WE DON’T CARE. RON PROUSE SHOWS YOU HOW TO OUT-GLOW THE GLIMMERIEST, IF YOU’RE PREPARED TO GLOW, GLIMMER AND JUST GENERALLY ANNOY YOUR NEIGHBOURS. GO THE GLOWCOMOTIVE!
    • 2009 June 7, Benjamin Genocchio, “The Glimmer of East End Light”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Light, fresh and evanescent, they are suffused with the glimmery yellowness of East End light; it’s not quite yellow or white, but a color somewhere in between.
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