glowersome

English

Etymology

From glower +‎ -some.

Adjective

glowersome (comparative more glowersome, superlative most glowersome)

1. (dated) Involving a glower (an angry glare or stare); sullen, gloomy.
   • 1895 November 23, Dorothy Lundt, “The Office Cat: Her Mewsings”, in Boston Commonwealth, volume XXXV, number 47, Boston, M.A.: Commonwealth Publishing Company, page 14:

     The Office Cat relapsed into a glowersome and sulky silence. But I thought, as the elevator went down, I heard her raucous tones in the refrain of an ancient college song, which begins—— ¶ 'The man who takes'——

   • 1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty: A Romance, Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 87:

     'T was a-quaking i' the ruin o' the owd mill, dithering and dathering glowersome like.

   • 1926 November 23, Damon Runyon, “The Hall-Mills Case”, in Trials and Other Tribulations, Philadelphia, P.A.: J. B. Lippincott Company, published 1947, page 66:

     Mr. Arthur Applegate was really more glowersome at Senator Simpson than any of the others.

   • 1944, May Justus, Banjo Billy and Mr. Bones, Chicago, I.L.: Albert Whitman & Company, page 25:

     Uncle Josiah and Aunt Sally Ann both sympathized with Billy over the loss of his banjo. ¶ "But of course it's no good to get in a glowersome mood over it," advised Uncle Josiah.