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gimlety
gimlety
English
Adjective
gimlety (comparative more gimlety, superlative most gimlety)
- (rare) gimlet-eyed, piercing, sharp-sighted
- 1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
- His jaw had shut like a rat-trap, and there was the fire of battle in his gimlety eyes.
- 1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps