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, […]

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