Dictionary

gloaty en · ADJ

Etymology

From gloat + -y.

Meanings

1. Characterized by or resembling gloating.
   • 1947, Rex Stout, Too Many Women, Thorndike Press & Chivers Press, 1999, Chapter 24, p. 233, “This,” Cramer declared in as gloaty a tone as I had ever heard from him, “is really rich. […] ”
   • The rest of the town looked like servant’s quarters surrounding the “big house.” And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. And look at the way he painted it—a gloaty, sparkly white. 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 75:
   • 2014, Rick Owens, cited by Alexander Fury in “Rick Owens and the Dark Art of Creativity,” The Independent, 17 October, 2014, I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to. It’s not like I’m obligated to make any compromises, which is a wonderful thing. I probably sound a little gloaty to say that, or a little boastful, but it’s significant.
   • […] I saw Rosita and José, hand in hand, doing a sort of gloaty, derisive fandango for the torturing of Pete. 1912 September, Clarence L. Cullen, “The Hangman and Pedro Salazar”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume 47, number 6, page 948:

Forms

Deriveds

gloatily · gloatiness

Synonyms

smug