Glope -
From Middle English
glopen, probably from Old Norse
glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from
Proto-Germanic *glupanan (“to shine, gape”), from
Proto-Indo-European *ghlub(h)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic
glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch
gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German
glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots
gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also
gloppen.