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▪ I. gloat, n.1
[f. gloat v.]
†1. A side-glance; ? a furtive or sullen look. Obs. rare.
1645Featly Dippers Dipt Ep. Ded. B, Satans watchful eye is upon it [the Gospel], and he casts an envious gloate at it. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. vi. 61 The Frowne, the Gloat, the Hung-lip, the Neglect, the Go-by.
2. An act of gloating; a look, feeling, or expression of triumphant satisfaction.
1899Kipling Stalky 13 They spun wildly on their heels, jodelling after the accepted manner of a ‘gloat’. 1921Galsworthy To Let ii. iii, To watch the gloat in his eye. 1927Bulletin 7 Oct. 17/2 Preparing to enjoy a satisfying gloat over some of his critics. 1930‘Hay’ & King-Hall Middle Watch xx, She now stood regarding the Admiral's wife with a certain deliberate..insolence of expression. One might almost call it a gloat. 1970A. Hunter Gently with Innocents viii. 106 He was having a gloat over his gold..picking it up, gloating over it.
▪ II. gloat, n.2 dial.
Also 8 glout, 8–9 glut, 9 glot.
[Etymology unknown.]
A species of eel (see quots.). Also gloat-eel.
1747H. Glasse Cookery xxi. 163 Grigs, Shafflins and Glout. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 114 There is another variety of this fish [the eel] known in the Thames by the name of Grigs, and about Oxford by that of Grigs or Gluts. 1776Twiss Tour Irel. 97 Perch, salmon, pike, trout, glut-eels, silver-eels. 1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 243 The ‘hooking’ eel or ‘gloat,’—the blackish medium-sized eel taken by anglers, babbers, and on night-lines. 1895in E. Angl. Gloss., Gloat or Glot.
▪ III. gloat, v.|gləʊt|
Forms: 6–7 gloate, gloit, gloyt, 7 glott, 7–9 glote, 7– gloat.
[Of obscure origin, but apparently = MHG. and mod.G. glotzen to stare, Sw. (dial.) glotta to peep, ON. glotta to grin. Prob. taken up in the 16th c. from some dialect, in which it may have been an adoption from ON.
Although common in the 17th and 18th c., the word is not in Phillips and was unknown to Johnson, who quotes the lines from Rowe (see 2 below) with the remark, ‘This word I conceive to be ignorantly written for gloar’.
The development of sense 3 has prob. been more or less influenced by association with glut v.]
†1. intr. To look or gaze askance; to look with a furtive or sidelong glance. Also to gloat it. Obs.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 60 With myne eyz, az I can amoroously gloit it. 1576Gascoigne Compl. Philomene (Arb.) 96 Ne could he loke a side, But like the cruel catte Which gloating casteth many a glance Vpon the selly ratte. 1590Nashe Pasquil's Apol. i. A iij b, Though in silence I gloate through the fingers at other matters, yet am I not carelesse of the quarrell nowe in hand. 1615Chapman Odyss. xii. 150 She [Scylla]..streakes From out a ghastly whirle-poole, all her necks; Where (gloting round her rocke) to fish she falles. 1619R. Weste Bk. Demeanor 33 in Babees Bk., Nor let thine eyes be gloting downe, cast with a hanging looke. 1650–3G. Daniel Idylls iii. 8 (Grosart) IV. 219 Purblind in Ethicks, as y⊇ Running Hare Gloats either way. 1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 240 Come hither Sirrah, cryes Lucifer; and so the poor Cur went wrigling and glotting up towards his Prince. 1684Creech Ovid's Eleg. ii. vii. in Dryden's Miscell. i. 129 If at the Play I in Fop-corner sit, And with a squinting Eye glote o'er the pit. 1727Gay Fables xxxiii. 29 Like you [a snake], they..With malice hiss, with envy glote, And for convenience change their coat. [1881Isle of Wight Gloss., Gloat, to look sulky, to swell. ‘He gloats like a tooad.’]
†b. In pa. pple. Of the eyes: Turned up or upward. Obs.
1624Bp. R. Montagu Immed. Address 31 So sighs, and groanes, as many as you will; and eyes gloyted vpward, God knoweth why, or whether. a1641― Acts & Mon. vii. (1642) 396 Their gloited-up eyes, their groning bellies.
c. Of light: ? To glance aside. rare.
1644[see gloating ppl. a. b]. 1866Thornbury Greatheart III. 224 The light gloated on some strange-shaped glasses, and on a retort that stood on a side-table.
†2. To cast amorous or admiring glances. Const. on, upon. Obs.
1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer ii. i. 16 In short, I cou'd not glote upon a man when he comes into a Room, and laugh at him when he goes out. 1678Otway Friendship in F. iii. 32 My revenge shall be to love you still; gloat on and loll after you where ere I see you [etc.]. 1680Dryden Limberham i. 8 (Aside) Are you gloting already? then there's hopes, i' faith. 1710Rowe Jane Shore iv. i, Teach every Grace to smile, in your Behalf, And her deluding Eyes to gloat for you. 1727Gay Fables xiv. 27 Some praise his sleeve and others glote Upon his rich embroider'd coat [etc.].
quasi-trans.1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer iv. i, Her tongue, I confess, was silent; but her speaking Eyes gloted such things.
3. To gaze with intense or passionate satisfaction (usually implying a lustful, avaricious or malignant pleasure). Now almost exclusively to gloat on, gloat upon, or gloat over: to feast one's eyes upon, to contemplate, think of, or dwell upon with fierce or unholy joy.
1748Richardson Clarissa III. xiii. 89 [The spider] suspends it [the fly], as if for a spectacle to be exulted over: Then stalking to the door of his cell, turns about, glotes over it at a distance. 1764Churchill Ep. W. Hogarth 339 Hogarth, a guilty pleasure in his eyes, The place of Executioner supplies. See how he glotes, enjoys the sacred feast, And proves himself by cruelty a priest. 1794Godwin Cal. Williams (1796) III. x. 182 Mr. Spurrel perfectly gloted, with eyes that seemed to devour everything that passed. 1801Wolcot (P. Pindar) Tears & Smiles Wks. 1812 V. 69 The youth upon her tuneful lips Did full of rapture glote. 1815Scott Guy M. xx, Over such [books] the eye of Dominie Sampson gloated with rapture. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 217 Never did miser gloat on his money with more delight. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 510 He had caught the scent of carnage, and came to gloat on the butchery in which he could no longer take an active part. 1861Reade Cloister & H. IV. 7 Her sweet eyes turned and gloated on the little face..in silence. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. xxiv. 557 Circumstances..which are gloated over in the vile letters of..Northampton. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vi. 235 He..rejoiced greatly in gloating over the mysteries of iniquity. 1884S. St. John Hayti iii. 93 Soulouque went with his staff to inspect their mangled bodies..and gloat over the scene. 1885[see ghoul].
Hence ˈgloating vbl. n. Also ˈgloater, one who gloats.
1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 29 The eye receivinge kinde glaunces for amorous glotinges. 1659Torriano, Sguaraguardatóre, a starer, a gloter. 1850Browning Christmas Eve xxii. 89 His Bourbon bully's gloatings In the bloody orgies of drunk poltroonery. |