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glíw

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Wright's OE grammar
§357;
Take here instances under gleów, glíg, and add:
jesting, pleasantry
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  • Glió, gliú

    facetiae,

      Txts. 61, 825.

  • Gleó,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 70.
jeering, mockery
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  • Glió

    cabillatio,

      Txts. 47, 354.

  • Gliú

    gannatura,

      65, 948.

  • Ðe lǽs ðe ðú wegférendum wurðe eft tó glíge (cf.

    ne omnes qui vident incipiant inludere ei,

      Lk. 14, 29), Hex. 38, 11.
any activity intended to amuse, a game, diversion, pastime, sport, play
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  • Hé (

    Herod) ðæs wítegan deáð þǽre lyðran hoppystran hire glíges (dancing )

    tó méde forgeáf,
      Hml. Th. i. 484, 3.

  • In glíuuae (gliówe)

    in mimo,

      Txts. 70, 550.

  • Gliú

    minium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 51: 70, 35: 46, 42.

  • Stód þǽr sum man mid ánum apan and slóh cymbalan. Þá sóna se hálga wer wæs forhycgende ꝥ glíg

    cum simia vir adstitit, et cymbala percussit. Quem sanctus sonitum audiens dedignatus,

      Gr. D. 62, 18.

  • Pleglican glía beclyppinga

    iocosos ludorum amplexus,

      An. Ox. 3173.
  • v. bismer-glíw, chor-glíw, geflit-glíw, sealm-glíw.
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v.  gleó.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “glíw.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/50952.

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