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glowr

glowr is the obsolete spelling of glower.

Meaning of glower

Verb

glower (third-person singular simple present glowers, present participle glowering, simple past and past participle glowered)

  1. (intransitive) To look or stare with anger.
    • [...] 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: [...][1720?], [Allan Ramsay], Patie and Roger: A Pastoral Inscribed to Josiah Burchet Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty, [Edinburgh?]: [Thomas Ruddiman for the author?], →OCLC, page 9
    Synonyms:
    lour

See all 3 meanings of glower

Forms of glowr

third-person singular presentglowrs
present participleglowring
past participleglowred
pastglowred

Questions about glowr

What is glowr the obsolete spelling of?
Glowr is the obsolete spelling of glower.

Words near glowr in the dictionary

  1. glowpost
  2. glowposted
  3. glowposting
  4. glowpostings
  5. glowposts
  6. glowr
  7. glows
  8. glows up
  9. glowsome
  10. glowstick
  11. glowsticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glowr (page history and authors); glower (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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