glint
- a tiny, quick flash of light.
- gleaming brightness; luster.
- a brief or slight manifestation or occurrence; inkling; trace.
- to shine with a glint.
- to move suddenly; dart.
- to cause to glint; reflect.
Origin of glint
Synonyms for glint
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Contemporary Examples of glint
Billy Bob Thornton, explaining the biggest appeal of the project for him, calls it, with a glint in his eye, “a 10-hour movie.”
Historical Examples of glint
"I'll have to think that over," she said, with a glint of mischief in her eyes.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
With the first glint of dawn I heard steps outside the hut; but I did not stir.
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
"It is a habit of mine," said he, with a glint of humour in his eye.
St. Martin's SummerRafael Sabatini
Alston Choate did not allow a glint to lighten the grave kindliness of his glance.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
The wolf had seen the glint of her pistol barrel and had fled.
Out of the DepthsRobert Ames Bennet
glint
- to gleam or cause to gleam brightly
- a bright gleam or flash
- brightness or gloss
- a brief indication
Word Origin for glint
Word Origin and History for glint
1787, from Scottish, where apparently it survived as an alteration of Middle English glenten "gleam, flash, glisten" (mid-15c.), from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian gletta "to look," dialectal Swedish glinta "to shine"), from Proto-Germanic *glent-, from PIE *ghel- "to shine, glitter, glow, be warm" (see glass). Reintroduced into literary English by Burns. Related: Glinted; glinting.
1540s (modern use from 1826), from glint (v.).