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glarings

glarings is the plural of glaring.

Meaning of glaring

Noun

glaring (plural glarings)

  1. The act of giving a glare.
    • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  2. (collective, rare) A group of cats.
    • Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
      Sheldon: Clowder.
      Leonard: What?
      Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”
    Synonyms:
    clowder, clutter

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Questions about glarings

What is glarings the plural of?
Glarings is the plural of glaring.

Words near glarings in the dictionary

  1. glariness
  2. glaring
  3. glaring daggers
  4. glaringly
  5. glaringness
  6. glarings
  7. glark
  8. glarked
  9. glarking
  10. glarks
  11. glarney

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