glower

Pronunciation: /ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)/

The English word “glower” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

To look or stare with anger.

noun

An angry glare or stare.
That which glows or emits light.

Etymology

From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. By surface analysis, glow + -er (fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.

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