glimmer-gowk
English
Noun
glimmer-gowk (plural glimmer-gowks)
- (UK, dialectal, obsolete) An owl.
- 1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Village Wife; or, The Entail”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 75:
- '[E] sit like a great glimmer-gowk wi' 'is glasses athurt 'is noase, […]