glower

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An angry glare or stare.
    — She sure has an awful glower on her face.
  2. That which glows or emits light.
    — Table 45 presents computed relative and absolute values for the spectral radiant emittance of a Nernst glower at T = 1965 and 2000°K (the corresponding emissivities are 0.427 and 0.438).
动词 v.
  1. To look or stare with anger. intransitive
    — [...] Last Morning I was unco airly out, / Upon a Dyke I lean'd and glowr'd about; / I ſaw my Meg come linkan o'er the Lee, / I ſaw my Meg, but Maggie ſaw na me: [...]

词形变化

glowers present,singular,third-person glowering participle,present glowered participle,past glowered past glowers plural glour alternative glowr alternative glowers plural

词汇关系

近义词
glare scowl

词源

词源 1
From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. Equivalent to glow + -er (a fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.
词源 2
From Middle English glouere, equivalent to glow + -er.
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