When you are bored resulting in a person to play with their feet. It’s a more intense feeling of boredom, if used, it means you are as bored as a pantalone simp
A glimmer man (sometimes rendered as "glimmerman") was a name unofficially, but universally, applied to inspectors who were employed by coal gas manufacturers in Ireland to detect the use of gas in breach of rationing restrictioons during the Emergency (ie. WW2) from March 1942 and in some places as late as 1947.
The term is now used as a metaphor for bureaucratic intrusion into privacy.
"Rattled by the glimmer man, the boogie man, the holy man" - lyric from "Faithful Departed" by Phil Chevron.
"Gas could be used only on certain hours of the day and hence the arrival of the Glimmer man."
AKA "Letter Switching", the simple act of taking the first two letters of two words and switching their places. This can be used with names also. It gives sentences and/or names a funny twist, and you can possibly get away with this "secret language" in certain situations. (Originated in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin)
(Ex 1)
Ryan: hey Charles, let's go buck some fitches
Charles: what?
Ryan: I mean, let's go fuck some bitches. Sorry, I'm used to "Swetter Litching"
(Ex 2)
Paul: the football game was crazy, Bom Trady threw an interception to end the game
Derek: who?
Paul: Tom Brady, haven't you heard of "Swetter Litching"?
Derek: no, but it sounds fun! I'm going to start doing it