gloat

• glote, glout (both obsolete?)

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”).^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡloʊt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡləʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

gloat (third-person singular simple present gloats, present participle gloating, simple past and past participle gloated)

1. 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.

2. To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.

gloat (plural gloats)

1. An act or instance of gloating.
   • 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co (page 13)

     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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