glower

Meanings

Verb

• To look or stare with anger.

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• glare
• scowl

Origin

• From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English gloren, glouren; or from glow , and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren ("to flicker; to glimmer"), Middle Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. See more at glare.
• From Middle English glouere, equivalent to glow + -er.