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▪ I. glam1 Obs. exc. dial.
[a. ON. glam(m noise, din (Sw. glam merriment, loud mirth, Da. glam barking of dogs), prob. echoic in origin.]
Any loud noise, as shouting, loud or merry talk, barking of dogs, etc.; also, a shout, cry.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 830 Þenne seten þay at þe soper..Þe gestes gay & ful glad, of glam debonere. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1426 Such a glauerande glam of gedered rachchez Ros, þat þe rocherez rungen aboute. Ibid. 1652 Much glam & gle glente vp þer-inne, Aboute þe fyre vpon flet. a1400–50Alexander 5504 He heres A grete glauir & a glaam of grekin tongis. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., Hold your glam, anybody can't year theirzel spake.
▪ II. glam2 Sc.
Also glaum.
[var. of clam n.1; cf. glan and gland n.3]
pl. a. The iron jaws of a vice (cf. clam n.1 2 b). b. Pincers, nippers (so clams in dial.). c. Hands (cf. clam n.1 3).
1580Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 302 Item, in the smiddie ane irne studie ane licht hammer ane littill pair of glammis but the vys. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Glaums, instruments used by horse-gelders, when gelding. 1847–78Halliwell, Glams, the hands. Northumb.
▪ III. glam3
Var. of clam n.2 1.
1797Polwhele Hist. Devon. I. 123 The Glam, a shell-fish of the muscle kind, is found above Totnes wear.
▪ IV. glam|glæm|
Colloq. abbrev. of glamorous, glamorize, and glamour; also glam-rock, a style of rock music (typically of the early to mid-1970s) characterized by male performers dressed in glamorous clothes, with the suggestion of androgeny or sexual ambiguity; cf. glitter rock s.v. glitter n.1 3. Hence glammed-up a., glamorized, ‘tarted up’; glammy a., glamorous.
1936in Amer. Speech XI. 192/2 The glammiest of the glamour girls—Tallulah Bankhead. 1937Motion Picture June 17/1 Loretta Young—does that girl know how to glam! 1957J. Osborne Look Back in Anger iii. i. 85 Get yourself glammed up, and we'll hit the town. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1109/1 Glam, glamour: film-world hangers-on: since ca. 1940. 1963‘M. Corrigan’ Why do Women..? iv. 28 Have you any ‘glam’ night spots near by? 1964C. Dale Other People v. 107 She was..wearing eye-shadow and a great deal of lipstick. ‘You're looking very glam,’ he said. 1966J. Caird Perturbing Spirit vii. 72 We dress up for our dinner. We're not usually so glam. 1968L. Berg Risinghill 45 In Risinghill Street itself..there are no glammed-up places. [1974Music Scene Jan. 47/1 There was also nothing to say that he was the ‘King of Glamour Rock’. ] Ibid. Mar. 10/4 Many bands started resorting to gimmicks in their acts{ddd}Thus was born the age of ‘glam rock’.1984Melody Maker 6 Oct. 5/4 Robin..recently produced the stunning Wrathchild glam rock album.
▪ V. glam
var. glaum v. Sc., to snatch. |