glout

[ gloot, glout ]

verb (used without object)

, Archaic.

1. to scowl or frown.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glout¹

1400–50; late Middle English, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

Glout, glowt, v.i. to be sulky.—n. a sulky look, the sulks.

From Project Gutenberg

To say nothing of being the cause, that my mamma was in the glout with her poor daughter all the way.

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At Church, in Pews, ye most devoutly snore And here, got dully drunk, ye come to roar: Ye go to Church to glout, and ogle there, And come to meet more loud convenient here.

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V. be sullen &c. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam†, pout, have a hangdog look, glout†.

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