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glout

/ɡluːt/

glout noun: a sulky look.

Noun

glout (plural glouts)

  1. (obsolete) A sulky look.
  2. (obsolete) A stare.

Verb

glout (third-person singular simple present glouts, present participle glouting, simple past and past participle glouted)

  1. (obsolete) To sulk; to be sulky; to pout.
    • "Mehalah!" called Mrs. Sharland. "I will not have you glouting in there any longer. Come out."1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes
  2. (obsolete) To stare; to stare gloatingly.
    • ... namely that whosoever attempteth any thing for the publike (specially if it pertaine to Religion, and to the opening and clearing of the word of God) the same setteth himselfe upon a stage to be glouted upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himselfe headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every...1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, published 1611, Preface

glout meaning in Urdu and Bengali

glout in Urdu

مکدر ہونا

glout in Bengali

গোমড়া মুখ, একদৃষ্টিতে তাকানো, মন খারাপ করা, গুম মেরে থাকা, ঠোঁট উল্টানো, লোলুপ দৃষ্টিতে তাকানো

Forms of glout

Noun
pluralglouts
Verb
third-person singular presentglouts
present participleglouting
past participleglouted
pastglouted

Origin of glout

From Scots. Compare gloat.

Words that rhyme with glout

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about glout

What does glout mean?
Glout means a sulky look.
What is glout in Urdu?
Glout in Urdu is مکدر ہونا. See Glout meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is glout?
Glout can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce glout?
Glout is pronounced /ɡluːt/.
What is the plural of glout?
The plural of glout is glouts.

Words near glout in the dictionary

  1. Glounthaune
  2. glour
  3. gloured
  4. glouring
  5. glours
  6. glout
  7. glouted
  8. glouting
  9. glouts
  10. glove
  11. glove box

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glout (page history and authors); glout (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glout (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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