glint
verb
[ ɡlɪnt ]
• give out or reflect small flashes of light.
• "her glasses glinted in the firelight"
Similar:
shine,
gleam,
catch the light,
glitter,
sparkle,
twinkle,
blink,
wink,
glimmer,
shimmer,
glow,
flicker,
glisten,
flash,
reflect light,
glister,
coruscate,
scintillate,
fulgurate,
effulge,
luminesce,
incandesce,
phosphoresce,
glint
noun
• a small flash of light, especially a reflected one.
• "the glint of gold in his teeth"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘move quickly or obliquely’): variant of dialect glent, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish dialect glänta, glinta ‘to slip, slide, gleam’.
