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   Gloat

   /ɡlōt/

   

   verb

   • 1. contemplate or dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure: "his enemies gloated over his death"

   noun

   • 1. an act of gloating: informal "I would join her for a good gloat"

   Word Origin late 16th century: of unknown origin; perhaps related to Old Norse glotta ‘to grin’ and Middle High German glotzen ‘to stare’. The original sense was ‘give a sideways or furtive look’, hence ‘cast amorous or admiring glances’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. gloater noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • G

     2

   • L

     1

   • O

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

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