Posted on 05/11/2005 5:59:06 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
glower \GLOW-er ("OW" as in "cow")\ verb
to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger
Example sentence:
Mariah crossed her arms and glowered at Jeff, making it perfectly clear that she'd had enough of his teasing.
Did you know?
Do words of uncertain origin make you scowl? If so, "glower" may put a frown on your face, because only part of its history can be validated. The well-established part of its story leads us to Scotland, where "glower" (or "glowren," to use the older Scottish form of the word) has been used since the late Middle Ages. Originally, the word meant simply "to look intently" or "to stare in amazement," but by the late 1700s, glowering stares were being associated with anger instead of astonishment. Beyond that, however, the history of the word is murky. The most we can say is that "glower" is a distant relative of Middle Low German "gluren," which means "to be overcast," and of Middle Dutch "gloeren," meaning "to leer."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
An 11 y.o. with a stiffy!
Well, everyone's got to start sometime.
yeppers!
65 in the rest of the country is 66 in Alabama.
I'll cover LE in Cool Whip and make some pictures!
He will be filling out papers and answering questions for a few days. Will probably get a suspension of his ticket and could lose it. DUMB
Cradle robber!
hey, I could have sworn I read you were going to be among the missing? couldn't stay away?
I was only 5 y.o. back then!
Rare day in the office today due to someone else'e illness. Still I have been on FR less than 1 hour today. I used to stay logged in from 6 am to 5 pm. People are used to me responding fairly quickly and I don't want to lose my invisible friends.
pffffffffffffft
Wanna play Barbies?
Why wreck the pictures with Cool Whip??
I'll bring my GI Joe and whup Ken's metrosexual butt.
I'd take some private ones without Cool Whip. The Cool Whip ones I could post.
I dunno. People keep posting pictures of Ted Kennedy's face and Hillary's face and Helen Thomas's face. Laura Earl w/o Cool Whip has GOT to be less offensive than those...
people's marriages really should be off limits. but since when were the dems ever fair or principled about anything?
is that significant? smoketown doesn't mean anything to me.
i think he COULD see it. i have been in a plane landing and national and you can SEE the monuments, they are recognizable from the air, it is a crystal clear day today. i don't see why he could NOT see where he was.
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