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glower

glo·wer

UK/ˈɡləʊə(ɹ)/ US/ˈɡloʊə(ɹ)/ fairly common
verb (2) noun (1)

verb

1.

look at with a fixed gaze

  • “The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her”
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noun

1.

an angry stare

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Origin

From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. By surface analysis, glow + -er (fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.

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