gloat

English

Alternative forms

• glote, glout (both obsolete?)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡloʊt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡləʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

gloat (third-person singular simple present gloats, present participle gloating, simple past and past participle gloated)

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.

Derived terms

• gloater
• gloaty

Translations

to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction

• Arabic: شَمِتَ (šamita)
• Bulgarian: злорадствам (bg) (zloradstvam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 幸災樂禍 / 幸灾乐祸 (hang⁶ zoi¹ lok⁶ wo⁶)

  Mandarin: 幸災樂禍 / 幸灾乐祸 (zh) (xìngzāilèhuò)

• Czech: mít škodolibou radost
• Dutch: met wellust bekijken, met duivels vermaak bekijken, verlustigen (nl)
• Finnish: hekumoida (fi), tuntea vahingoniloa
• French: jubiler (fr)
• German: hämisch freuen, sich weiden, sich diebisch freuen, sich ergötzen
• Italian: gongolare (it)
• Maori: whakakaitoa
• Polish: napawać się czyimś nieszczęściem
• Portuguese: tripudiar (pt)
• Romanian: jubila (ro)
• Russian: злорадствовать (ru) (zloradstvovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: злурадост f

  Roman: zluradost (sh) f

• Slovak: škodoradosť
• Spanish: relamerse (es), adularse, regodearse (es), refocilarse (es)

to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel

• Czech: vychutnávat si impf, vychutnat si pf
• Finnish: hekumoida (fi)
• German: sich brüsten, großtun (de), angeben (de), protzen (de), triumphieren (de), jubilieren (de), frohlocken (de), begeistert sein
• Romanian: triumfa (ro)

Noun

gloat (plural gloats)

1. An act or instance of gloating.

Translations

an act or instance of gloating

• Bulgarian: злорадство (bg) n (zloradstvo)
• Czech: škodolibá radost f
• German: hämische Freude f, Schadenfreude (de) f, Triumph (de) m
• Hungarian: káröröm (hu)
• Portuguese: tripudiação f
• Russian: злора́дство (ru) n (zlorádstvo)
• Spanish: presunción (es) f

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