glower

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun an angry stare
  2. verb look at with a fixed gaze
  3. verb look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

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.

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Synonyms

glare

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