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verb no object

give out or reflect small flashes of light:

きらりと光る, きらめく; «…に» 反射する «off» .

e.g. her glasses were glinting in the firelight.

(of a person's eyes) shine with a particular emotion:

〈目が〉 【感情などで】輝く «with»

e.g. his eyes glinted angrily.

a small flash of light, especially as reflected from a shiny surface:

きらめき, 閃光;反射

e.g. the glint of gold in his teeth.

in singular a brightness in someone's eyes seen as a sign of enthusiasm or a particular emotion:

目の輝き

e.g. she saw the glint of excitement in his eyes.

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’.