Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sullen or sulky look or manner; a pout. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.]
  • To gaze attentively; stare.
  • To pout; look sullen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To pout; to look sullen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A sulky look.
  • noun obsolete A stare.
  • verb obsolete To sulk; to be sulky; to pout.
  • verb obsolete To stare; to stare gloatingly.

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Examples

  • To say nothing of being the cause, that my mamma was in the glout with her poor daughter all the way.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Maybe it is time to find out where a man who has less than two years in Congress and gets so much glout to run for President and become the Nominee for the Democratic Party which has stayed in office for more than 7 years and has done nothing to progress this country or bring it together.

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  • To say nothing of being the cause, that my mamma was in the glout with her poor daughter all the way.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Now those good people that used to company with his wife began to be amazed and discouraged, also he would frown and glout [36] upon them as if he abhorred, the appearance of them, so that in little time he drove all good company from her, and made her sit solitary by herself.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • 28 _Peaching_. 4to 1698 weakly reads 'Preaching'.p. 201, l. 14 _glout_. 1724 'glour'.p. 202, l.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

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  • to scowl, sulk, frown, glower

    October 9, 2007