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Word For The Day, Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - glower
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ | 05/11/2005 | The Janitor

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.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....




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To: Argh; Conspiracy Guy

An 11 y.o. with a stiffy!


101 posted on 05/11/2005 11:41:08 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Fitness is a journey not a destination.)
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To: Laura Earl

Well, everyone's got to start sometime.


102 posted on 05/11/2005 11:44:49 AM PDT by Argh
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To: Argh

yeppers!


103 posted on 05/11/2005 11:55:40 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Fitness is a journey not a destination.)
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To: Argh

65 in the rest of the country is 66 in Alabama.


104 posted on 05/11/2005 12:54:12 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Argh; Laura Earl

I'll cover LE in Cool Whip and make some pictures!


105 posted on 05/11/2005 12:55:20 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: xsmommy

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


106 posted on 05/11/2005 12:58:30 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Laura Earl

Cradle robber!


107 posted on 05/11/2005 12:58:54 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: VRWCmember; xsmommy; Slip18
I am sure Bolton is glowering at the press releases saying Larry Flint has obtained his divorce records. Sad but true.
108 posted on 05/11/2005 1:00:17 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Conspiracy Guy

hey, I could have sworn I read you were going to be among the missing? couldn't stay away?


109 posted on 05/11/2005 1:01:06 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I was only 5 y.o. back then!


110 posted on 05/11/2005 1:02:52 PM PDT by Laura Earl (Fitness is a journey not a destination.)
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To: tioga

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.


111 posted on 05/11/2005 1:08:35 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Laura Earl

pffffffffffffft


112 posted on 05/11/2005 1:09:04 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Wanna play Barbies?


113 posted on 05/11/2005 1:13:34 PM PDT by Laura Earl (Fitness is a journey not a destination.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy; Laura Earl

Why wreck the pictures with Cool Whip??


114 posted on 05/11/2005 1:19:46 PM PDT by Argh
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To: Laura Earl

I'll bring my GI Joe and whup Ken's metrosexual butt.


115 posted on 05/11/2005 1:19:51 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Argh; Laura Earl

I'd take some private ones without Cool Whip. The Cool Whip ones I could post.


116 posted on 05/11/2005 1:21:17 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy; Laura Earl

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...


117 posted on 05/11/2005 1:29:04 PM PDT by Argh
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To: tioga

people's marriages really should be off limits. but since when were the dems ever fair or principled about anything?


118 posted on 05/11/2005 1:37:59 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: patton

is that significant? smoketown doesn't mean anything to me.


119 posted on 05/11/2005 1:38:51 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

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.


120 posted on 05/11/2005 1:40:02 PM PDT by xsmommy
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