gloat
verbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ɡləʊt//
- États-Unis//ɡloʊt//
To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
verbe
- 1
To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
You did well to win the game, but there's no need to gloat about it.
- 2
To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.
Étymologie
From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”) or Old English *glotian, both from Proto-Germanic *glutōną (“to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”), related to dialectal Swedish glotta, glutta (“to peep”), Middle High German glutzen, glotzen (“to stare”), Modern German glotzen (“to gawk, goggle”).
nom
- 1
An act or instance of gloating.
They spun wildly on their heels, jodelling after the accepted manner of a 'gloat,' which is not unremotely allied to the primitive man's song of triumph […]
Formes
- pluriel
- gloats
- passé
- gloated
- participe passé
- gloated
- participe présent
- gloating
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- gloats
gloat · To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
global · Concerning all parts of the world.globe · Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. The eyeball.Globe · The Earth.