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   glint

   /ɡlɪnt/

   verb

   • 1. give out or reflect small flashes of light: "her glasses glinted in the firelight"
   • ▪ (of a person's eyes) shine with a particular emotion: "his eyes glinted angrily"

   noun

   • 1. a small flash of light, especially a reflected one: "the glint of gold in his teeth"
   • ▪ an expression of an emotion in a person's eyes: "she saw the glint of excitement in his eyes"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘move quickly or obliquely’): variant of dialect glent, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish dialect glänta, glinta ‘to slip, slide, gleam’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • G

     2

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

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