Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Alternative form of glor (“fat, fatty”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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name
A surname.
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noun
A stare, fixed gaze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
A glow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Alternative form of glor (“fat”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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verb
To gaze intently, stare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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verb
To stare rudely or gloomily, glower, glare.
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Usage: archaic, dialectal
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verb
To glow, shine.
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Usage: dialectal
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verb
To squint.
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Usage: dialectal
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History
From Middle English gloren, (compare Middle English glaren (“to glare, stare, shine”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English *glārian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn (“to shine”). Compare Scots glore (“to stare”), West Frisian gloarje, Dutch gloren, German Low German gloren (“to glimmer; flicker”), Swedish glora, Norwegian Bokmål glore, Norwegian Nynorsk glora. Related to glare.
