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glowersome

glowersome adjective: involving a glower (an angry glare or stare); sullen, gloomy.

Adjective

glowersome (comparative more glowersome, superlative most glowersome)

  1. (dated) Involving a glower (an angry glare or stare); sullen, gloomy.
    • The Office Cat relapsed into a glowersome and sulky silence. But I thought, as the elevator went down, I heard her raucous tones in the refrain of an ancient college song, which begins—— ¶ 'The man who takes'——1895 November 23, Dorothy Lundt, “The Office Cat: Her Mewsings”, in Boston Commonwealth, volume XXXV, number 47, Boston, M.A.: Commonwealth Publishing Company, page 14
    • 'T was a-quaking i' the ruin o' the owd mill, dithering and dathering glowersome like.1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty: A Romance, Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 87

Examples of glowersome in a sentence

  • Arthur Applegate was really more glowersome at Senator Simpson than any of the others.1926 November 23, Damon Runyon, “The Hall-Mills Case”, in Trials and Other Tribulations, Philadelphia, P.A.: J. B. Lippincott Company...
  • Uncle Josiah and Aunt Sally Ann both sympathized with Billy over the loss of his banjo. ¶ "But of course it's no good to get in a glowersome mood over it," advised Uncle Josiah.1944, May Justus, Banjo Billy and Mr. Bones, Chicago, I.L.: Albert Whitman & Company, page 25:

Forms of glowersome

comparativemore glowersome
superlativemost glowersome

Origin of glowersome

From glower + -some.

Questions about glowersome

What does glowersome mean?
Glowersome means involving a glower (an angry glare or stare); sullen, gloomy.
How do you use glowersome in a sentence?
Arthur Applegate was really more glowersome at Senator Simpson than any of the others.
What part of speech is glowersome?
Glowersome is an adjective.

Words near glowersome in the dictionary

  1. glowerers
  2. glowering
  3. gloweringly
  4. glowerings
  5. glowers
  6. glowersome
  7. glowery
  8. glowest
  9. gloweth
  10. glowfag
  11. glowfaggot

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