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gloat
[gloht] 
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck. |
–noun
| 2. | an act or feeling of gloating. |
Origin:
1565–75; perh. akin to ON glotta to smile scornfully; cf. G glotzen to stare
1565–75; perh. akin to ON glotta to smile scornfully; cf. G glotzen to stare
Related forms:
gloater, noun
gloat⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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| gloat (glōt) intr.v. gloat·ed, gloat·ing, gloats To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction: Don't gloat over your rival's misfortune. n.
[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.] gloat'er n. |
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Gloat
Gloat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gloating.] [Akin to Icel. glotta to smile scornfully, G. glotzen to gloat.] To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice. In vengeance gloating on another's pain. --Byron.
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Language Translation for : gloat
Spanish:
regocijarse, deleitarse, relarmerse, recrearse,
German:
sich weiden,
Japanese:
ほくそえむ
gloat
1575, "to look at furtively," from O.N. glotta "smile scornfully," or M.H.G. glotzen "to stare, gloat." Sense of "to look at with malicious satisfaction" first recorded 1748.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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