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and milk (for the diff. between Ork. and Shetl. bursten, see under bursten). “gloggo” must be cognate with Shetl. glogs, in a similar sense; see gluks, sb.

glukast [glūkast, gᶅū-], glukasti [glukas·ti], sb., 1) a large heap; quantity, esp. of potatoes, baked in embers; a g. o’ taatis [‘potatoes’]: Uⁿ. (glukast and -kasti); he “laid in” a glukast, he put a large quantity of potatoes into the embers (to be baked): U^{n. and w.} 2) a very large portion of food; too much fodder; to gi’e de coo a glukast at de ane time and starve her at de tidder [‘other’], to give the cow too much fodder one day and starve her the next: N.Roe [gᶅūkast]. 3) a snack, light repast, esp. potato-mash, or potatoes dipped in cod-liver oil; also in a wider sense: a meal taken by hungry persons, unable to wait for the regular meal-time; “he canno [‘-not’] wait lang [‘long’]; he is on wi’ his glukast again”. Y^h. [glūkast]. — Meanings 2 and 3 seem to presuppose an orig. *glúp-kǫstr. For the first part of the compd. see ante, glub, sb.; with kast (kasti) in sense of a heap, quantity, cf. O.N. kǫstr (kast-), m., a heap of objects flung together. With ref. to glukast(i) 1 there might, however, also be supposed an orig. *glóð-kǫstr, a heap of embers raked together (in which something is baked).

gluks [gloks], gloks [glɔks], glugs [glogs], glogs [glɔgs, glȯgs], sb., a thick mass: a) gruel; in the N.I. esp. of oatmeal stirred in hot water, = gliks; sometimes also (e.g. in U.) a mass mixed of meal and bland (whey and water). Often used as a disparaging expr. of too thick milk-pottage, regular glogs (Uⁿ.). In Conn. occas. of lumps in porridge; “du lets (is lettin’) it a’ [‘all’] geng [‘go’] i’ gluks, a-gluks”, you are

letting the porridge get lumpy (you are not stirring the porridge well); b) a thick, muddy mass. Y. and Fe. [glȯgs]; in glogs, adhesive, of a moist mass. — gluks and gloks: Conn. glugs and glogs: U. [glogs, glȯgs: Uⁿ.; elsewhere alternating with “glɔgs”]. glogs: Y. and Fe. [glȯgs]. — Cf. No. kleksa and klyssa (under klessa and klysa respectively), f., a soft lump or mass; Germ. klecks, m., a smudge. gluks (glugs) appears to be a *kluks(a) from *klyksa; gloks (glogs) either from *klaks(a) or *kluks(a), *klyksa. — See glaks and gliks, sbs.

glum [glūm (glô^əm)], vb., to look or be suspicious; to suspect, to g. upon a ting, to have a suspicion of something being not quite right, that there is something wanting; I glumd as muckle, I thought as much. N.I. Also in the compd. “to ill-glum”; q.v. No. gluma, vb., to scowl (R.), glyma, vb., to look morose, also to have a sly look; L.Sc. gloum, gloom, vb., to look morose or sullen.

glums¹ [glo‘ms], sb., a pit; hollow; depression, esp. in sand, in sandy ground; a sandy g. Y^w. (W.Sw.). Either for *glufs (cf. below glums, vb.) and, in that case, the same word as No. glufsa, f., a narrow ravine, or to be classed with No. glumstra, f., a narrow, dark defile.

glums² [glo‘ms (glo‘mps)], sb., 1) a snap at something with one’s mouth, a greedy bite; to mak’ or tak’ a g. 2) an angry flaring up at someone; a snappish yelp; an angry, rough address; he got op [‘up’] in a g., he flared up at me in a rage; he ga’e a g. at me, a) it (the dog) gave an angry yelp at me; b) he treated me with a curt and rough address. 3) a muttered, indistinct remark or speech (Uⁿ.). “glo‘ms” is the usual pronunc.; glo‘mps: Uⁿ. occas. See glums, vb.