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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 6 Feb 2026 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/glipek>
