glout

[ gloot, glout ]

/ glut, glaʊt /

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verb (used without object) Archaic.

to scowl or frown.

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Origin of glout

1400–50; late Middle English, of uncertain origin

Words nearby glout

glottology, Gloucester, Gloucester City, Gloucester Old Spot, Gloucestershire, glout, glove, glove anesthesia, glove box, glove compartment, glove leather

How to use glout in a sentence

To say nothing of being the cause, that my mamma was in the glout with her poor daughter all the way.
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)|Samuel Richardson
Glout is an obsolete word signifying "to pout, to look sullen."
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I (of 2)|Colley Cibber