Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gloat

Gloat , intransitive verb

[Akin to Icelandic glotta to smile scornfully, German glotzen to gloat.]

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
2.
To gaze with malignant satisfaction; to exult maliciously, sometimes also triumphantly, in another's loss or discomfort; -- usually in a bad sense.
In vengeance gloating on another's pain. — Byron