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gloat

  [gloht]
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–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

Related forms:
gloater, noun
gloat⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. See glare 1 .
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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.  

  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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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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