Sparkling or shining brightly with reflected light, often with a wet or dewy appearance.
From Old English 'glisnian' or similar Germanic roots possibly imitating a shiny sound. The '-ing' makes it continuous, describing something actively gleaming.
This word is onomatopoeia-adjacent—'glist' sounds like light bouncing, and it's used poetically in everything from Shakespeare to modern descriptions of dewdrops catching sunlight, making it a word that sounds like what it means!
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