GLOAT

I. intransitive verb Etymology: akin to Middle English glouten to scowl and perhaps to Old Norse glotta to grin scornfully Date: 1605 to look or glance admiringly or amorously, to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight , ~er noun ~ingly adverb II. noun Date: 1899 the act or feeling of one who ~s