gloat

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• General-American: /ɡloʊt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡləʊt/
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• rhymes with -əʊt
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• CMU ARPABET: G L OW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: злорадство (zloradstvo) — an act or instance of gloating
• Czech: škodolibá radost — an act or instance of gloating
• German: hämische Freude — an act or instance of gloating
• German: Schadenfreude — an act or instance of gloating
• German: Triumph — an act or instance of gloating
• Hungarian: káröröm — an act or instance of gloating
• Portuguese: tripudiação — an act or instance of gloating
• Russian: злора́дство (zlorádstvo) — an act or instance of gloating
• Spanish: recreación — an act or instance of gloating
• Spanish: regocijo (en el mal ajeno) — an act or instance of gloating
• Arabic: شَمِتَ (šamita) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Bulgarian: злорадствам (zloradstvam) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Chinese Cantonese: 幸災樂禍 /幸灾乐祸 (hang6 zoi1 lok6 wo6) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Chinese Mandarin: 幸災樂禍 /幸灾乐祸 (xìngzāilèhuò) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Czech: mít škodolibou radost — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Dutch: met wellust bekijken — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Dutch: met duivels vermaak bekijken — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Dutch: verlustigen — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Finnish: hekumoida — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Finnish: tuntea vahingoniloa — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• French: jubiler — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• German: hämisch freuen — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• German: sich weiden — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• German: sich diebisch freuen — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• German: sich ergötzen — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Italian: gongolare — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Kazakh: табалау (tabalau) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Kazakh: қыбы қану (qyby qanu) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Kazakh: шоқ-шоқ деу (şoq-şoq deu) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Māori: whakakaitoa — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Māori: muriroa — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Polish: napawać się czyimś nieszczęściem — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Portuguese: tripudiar — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Romanian: jubila — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Russian: злорадствовать (zloradstvovatʹ) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Serbo-Croatian: злурадост — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Serbo-Croatian: zluradost — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Slovak: škodoradosť — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Spanish: recrearse — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Spanish: regocijarse — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Spanish: regodearse (en el mal ajeno) — to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction
• Czech: vychutnávat si — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• Czech: vychutnat si — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• Finnish: hekumoida — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: sich brüsten — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: großtun — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: angeben — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: protzen — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: triumphieren — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: jubilieren — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: frohlocken — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• German: begeistert sein — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel
• Romanian: triumfa — to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel