glout
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots. Compare gloat.
Pronunciation
Noun
glout (plural glouts)
Verb
glout (third-person singular simple present glouts, present participle glouting, simple past and past participle glouted)
- (obsolete) To sulk; to be sulky; to pout.
- 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes:
- "Mehalah!" called Mrs. Sharland. "I will not have you glouting in there any longer. Come out."
- (obsolete) To stare; to stare gloatingly.
- 1769 [1611], The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Preface,
- ... namely that whosoever attempteth any thing for the publike (specially if it pertaine to Religion, and to the opening and clearing of the word of God) the same setteth himselfe upon a stage to be glouted upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himselfe headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every sharpe tongue.
- 1769 [1611], The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Preface,