gloat
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
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- 5
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Definition of gloat
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
“You did well to win the game, but there's no need to gloat about it.”
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verb
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To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
“You did well to win the game, but there's no need to gloat about it.”
- To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.
noun
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An act or instance of gloating.
“They spun wildly on their heels, jodelling after the accepted manner of a 'gloat,' which is not unremotely allied to the primitive man's song of triumph […]”
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Etymology
From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”) or Old English *glotian, both from Proto-Germanic *glutōną (“to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”), related to dialectal Swedish glotta, glutta (“to peep”), Middle High German glutzen, glotzen (“to stare”), Modern German glotzen (“to gawk, goggle”).
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