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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
†GLIPEK, GLIPPIK, n. “An opening; cleft; fissure, esp. such as can be looked through . . . the broken, upper part of a wall or of a stone fence” (Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928)); “a bit broken out of the edge of a board; any small hollow, as, for instance, in the top of a wall; a rift, a rent” (Sh. 1914 Angus Gl., glippik). Also glip (Angus).
[Deriv. from Norw. dial. glip, a small channel-shaped opening, a crack.]You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.
"Glipek n.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 10 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/glipek>
