Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gloat
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Gloat
gloat
(gloats, gloating, gloated) If someone is gloating, they are showing pleasure at their own success or at other people’s failure in an arrogant and unpleasant way. Anti-abortionists are gloating over the court’s decision... This is nothing to gloat about. VERB: V over/about n, V over/about n, also V c darkgreen]disapproval
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I. intransitive verb Etymology: akin to Middle English glouten to scowl and perhaps to Old Norse glotta to grin scornfully Date: 1605 1. obsolete to look or glance admiringly or amorously 2. to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight ~ over an enemy's misfortune • ~er noun • ~ingly adverb II. noun Date: 1899 the act or feeling of one who ~s ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
v. & n. --v.intr. (often foll. by on, upon, over) consider or contemplate with lust, greed, malice, triumph, etc. (gloated over his collection). --n. 1 the act of gloating. 2 a look or expression of triumphant satisfaction. Derivatives gloater n. gloatingly adv. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn., but perh. rel. to ON glotta grin, MHG glotzen stare ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. любование, восхищение 2. радость (по поводу чужого несчастья); злорадство 3. (также gloat over) смотреть с восхищением, с вожделением the miser gloated over hia gold —- скряга радовался, глядя на свое золото 4. (также gloat over) радоваться (чужому несчастью); злорадствовать; торжествовать to sit gloating by oneself —- радоваться в одиночку to gloat over another's misfortune —- радоваться чужому несчастью he gloated quietly at the thought that... —- он тихо (втайне) злорадствовал при мысли, что... he was gloating over his success —- он торжествовал по поводу своего успеха it's nothing to gloat over —- тут нечему радоваться ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
v. 1) тайно злорадствовать, торжествовать (over) Jim likes to gloat over all the sports prizes he has won, which he keeps in a glass case. Our team are gloating over their victory. Dont you think its a little unkind to gloat over your competitors failure? 2) пожирать глазами (over, upon) Syn: see boast ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v to show in an unpleasant way that you are happy about your own success or about someone else's failure + over (Dick was still gloating over Scotland's 5- 0 defeat.) - gloat n (I bet Sam's having a gloat over that one.) - gloatingly adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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