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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


gloater, noun
gloat⋅ing⋅ly, adverb


1. See glare 1 .
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.  
  1. The act of gloating.
  2. A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction.

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
gloat'er n.

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.
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.
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