verb
glower
Glower (verb) means to look at someone with an angry expression.
verb
1
To look at someone with an angry expression.
"She glowered at me; nothing would quiet her."
— Algernon D. Black, Marriage (1974)
"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."
— Thomas Sigismund Stribling, The Dry Dock (1917)
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Etymology
This word comes from an alteration, possibly Scots, of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); alternatively it may come from glow (“to stare”, now obsolete), ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. It is cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren and Icelandic glóra. On the surface it analyses as glow plus -er (a fossilised frequentative suffix). See more at glare.
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What is the meaning of glower?
"glower" (verb) means to look at someone with an angry expression.
What is another word for glower?
Other words for "glower" include lour, glare, lower, frown.
