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glore

The English word “glore” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To gaze intently, stare.
  2. To stare rudely or gloomily, glower, glare.
  3. To glow, shine.
  4. To squint.

noun

  1. A stare, fixed gaze.
  2. A glow.

Etymology

From Middle English gloren, (compare Middle English glaren (“to glare, stare, shine”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English *glārian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn (“to shine”). Compare Scots glore (“to stare”), West Frisian gloarje, Dutch gloren, German Low German gloren (“to glimmer; flicker”), Swedish glora, Norwegian Bokmål glore, Norwegian Nynorsk glora. Related to glare.

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