glouting

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Adjective[edit]

glouting (comparative more glouting, superlative most glouting)

  1. sullen, pouting
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, [], →OCLC, book VII:
      She had been greatly, therefore, disappointed in the morning, when Mrs Western had changed her mind on the very point of departure; and had been in what is vulgarly called a glouting humour ever since.

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glouting

  1. present participle and gerund of glout