different between glour vs glower

English

Etymology

Regarding the spelling glour/glower, compare lour/lower.

Verb

glour (third-person singular simple present glours, present participle glouring, simple past and past participle gloured)

1. Alternative spelling of glower.

Anagrams

• orgul

English

Etymology 1

From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English gl?ren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Middle Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. See more at glare.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??la??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
• Hyphenation: glow?er

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. [from late 15th c.]

Synonyms

• glare
• scowl

Translations

Noun

glower (plural glowers)

1. An angry glare or stare. [from late 15th c.]

Alternative forms

• glour
• glowr (obsolete)

Synonyms

• glare
• scowl

Derived terms

• glowerer
• glowering (noun)
• gloweringly

Translations

See also

• frown

Etymology 2

From Middle English glouere, equivalent to glow +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l???(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??lo??(?)/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: glow?er

Noun

glower (plural glowers)

1. That which glows or emits light.

References

Further reading

• Nernst glower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gowler, reglow