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glairy
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glairy (glār´e) resembling egg white.
glairy [glār´e]
resembling white of an egg.

glairy
slimy, resembling white of an egg.


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The white of an egg is called the glair - it comes from the Latin clarus, meaning clear.
3) Magnus noem so 'n klanksekwens en sy geassosieerde betekenis 'n phonestheme en gee onder meer die volgende Engelse voorbeelde vir die konsonantkombinasie /gl/: /gl/--shining, mostly reflected or indirect light--glare, gleam, glim, glimmer, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, gloaming, glow /gl/--looking (usually indirect)--glance, glare, glazed, glimpse, glint, glower /gl/--reflecting surfaces--glace, glacier, glair, glare, glass, glaze, gloss (Magnus, 1999:4-5).
He’s a mystery: Sensitive to a fault to the memories of hurt and the passions of childish cruelty, he also sprinkles his book with eccentric verbiage: levitant, cracaleured, horrent, cinereal, glair, torsion, caducous, velutinous, bosky and so on.
 
 
 
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