glower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glowers
form: glowering
form: glowered
form: glowered
Etymology: 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. Equivalent to glow + -er (a fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Last Morning I was unco airly out, / Upon a Dyke I lean'd and glowr'd about; / I ſaw my Meg come linkan o'er the Lee, / I ſaw my Meg, but Maggie ſaw na me: [...]
ref: [1720?], [Allan Ramsay], Patie and Roger: A Pastoral Inscribed to Josiah Burchet Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty, [Edinburgh?]: [Thomas Ruddiman for the author?], →OCLC, page 9:
text: Now look at this board that I just flung into the dark aisle out o' the way, while Monkbarns was glowering ower a' the silver yonder.
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Antiquary. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 236:
text: Here the Neapolitan appeared at the door, glouring at us both. Velvet-Hood was back in her place in an instant. Said he, in his snarling way, his black eyes shooting out sparkles. "What is this hole and corner work? These confidences when I am gone—speak?"
ref: 1858 May 1, [Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald], “By Night Express”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, volume XVII, number 423, London: Published at the office, 16, Wellington Street North, Strand; printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London, →OCLC, page 479:
text: At sight of this castle or cottage in the air, Rachel lighted up. The little whim had something tranquilizing and balmy. It was escape—flight from Gylingden—flight from Brandon—flight from Redman's Farm: they and all their hated associations would be far behind, and that awful page in her story, not torn out, indeed, but gummed down as it were, and no longer glaring and glowering in her eyes every moment of her waking life.
ref: 1864, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Dorcas Brandon Pays Rachel a Visit”, in Wylder’s Hand. […], New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], published 1865, →OCLC, pages 140–141:
text: Andersonville, to-day, presents a striking contrast to the Andersonville of the "Confederacy." [...] No bayonet gleams from the sentry-boxes on the stockade or the dark red earthworks; no frowning muzzle of field artillery glowers from the embrasures of the battery, overlooking town and prison; [...]
ref: 1868, S. H. M. Byers, “Appendix. Andersonville as It Was and Is. [From the Boston Transcript.]”, in What I Saw in Dixie; or Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons, Dansville, N.Y.: Robbins & Poore, printers, Express Printing House, →OCLC, page 92:
text: This soothed the irascible fellow somewhat. Still glowering, he spraddled out of the cabin with the boys after him, and presently indicated one of the small temporary cabins with a jerk of his thumb.
ref: 1917, T[homas] S[igismund] Stribling, “The Dry Dock”, in The Cruise of the Dry Dock, Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Britton Co., →OCLC, pages 20–21:
text: She glowered at me; nothing would quiet her.
ref: 1974, Algernon D. Black, “Marriage”, in Without Burnt Offerings: Ceremonies of Humanism, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 107:
text: [Charles Francis] Harding was a kindly, quiet man, though he seemed to glower through his pince nez spectacles.
ref: 1988, Robert W. Topping, “Growth under Edward C. Elliott”, in A Century and Beyond: The History of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 227:
text: [A] less interesting character here than in the previous two films, Caesar glowers through the movie, as though aware that he has been condemned to a script that is rushing to clear the stage for the straightforward Planet Of The Apes remake first teased in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The Ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes Ends Up Surrendering to Formula”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2017:
glosses: To look or stare with anger.
Synonyms: glare
lour
scowl