A brief flash of light reflected off a shiny surface, or a quick sparkle of something gleaming.
Scottish and Northern English dialect origin, possibly from Old Norse 'glotta' meaning to grin or jeer. The word shifted to mean a glimmer of light, particularly in poetic and descriptive language by the 1800s.
A glint is that magical moment when light catches metal or water at exactly the right angle for just a fraction of a second—writers love it because it captures sudden, fleeting beauty in a single word.
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