Scottish and Northern English dialect: to grasp, seize, or snatch greedily or awkwardly with one's hands.
From Old Norse glaumr 'mockery' or related to grab/grasp concepts. Scottish dialect preserved this word through centuries of Norse influence on British languages.
Scottish dialect words like 'glaum' are linguistic fossils showing that Vikings didn't just raid—their language embedded itself so deeply that modern Scots still use their grab-words.
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