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Glim vs Blim - What's the difference?

glim | blim |

As nouns the difference between glim and blim

is that glim is a light, candle, lantern while blim is a chunk of cannabis resin.

glim

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) A light, candle, lantern.
  • * 1837 , (Charles Dickens), , Ch. 16:
    • 'Let's have a glim ,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your legs if you do!'
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), , Ch. 3:
    • "Come along here, I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), , Ch. 5:
    • 'Sure enough, they left their glim here,' said the fellow from the window.
  • (slang) An eye.
  • (obsolete) brightness; splendour
    • ----

    blim

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.
  • * 2005 , James Fergusson, Kandahar Cockney (page 322)
    • Getting stoned in Afghanistan was an extreme sport, a very long way indeed from the polite blims of hash that middle-class Londoners sometimes consume at parties.
  • * 2008 , Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros (page 114)
    • Have those chaps nothing better to do than to bust me for a blim ?
  • * 2011 , Niall Griffiths, Grits (page 274)
    • — Can anyone spair us a blim ? Mags sez.