glower

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The Word of the Day for May 3 is: 

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."