"glimflashy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 82, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 385",
          "text": "\"What ho, my kiddy!\" cried Job, \"don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn.\"",
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          "ref": "1985, Kasey Michaels, The Savage Miss Saxon (Alphabet Regency Romance; 5)",
          "text": "Glimflashy, he was, saying we was all dicked in the nob or else we should be bummed, laced up in darbies, and tossed in the bilboes. Oh, gloomy hour—what a brangle.",
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          "ref": "2014, Elizabeth Boyce, Honor Among Thieves (The Honorables; 1)",
          "text": "\"Dewhurst gone all glimflashy on me.\"¶ Pete took a long glug of his beer. \"What's he mad about?\"",
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