glum

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See also: Glum and glüm

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Probably from Middle Low German glum (glum), related to German dialectal glumm (gloomy, troubled, turbid). More at gloomy.

Adjective

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glum (comparative glummer, superlative glummest)

  1. Despondent; moody; sullen.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (to frown, look sullen), from *glom (gloom). More at gloom. The noun is from Middle English glome, from the verb.[1]

Verb

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glum (third-person singular simple present glums, present participle glumming, simple past and past participle glummed)

  1. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
    • 1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure:
      upon me he gan to loure and glum,
      Enforcing him so for to ryse withall,
      But that I shortly unto hem did cum,
      With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum

Noun

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glum (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) sullenness
    • c. 1550, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute:
      That they be deaf and dumb,
      And play silence and glum

References

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  1. ^ glum, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Swedish

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Verb

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glum

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of glömde (forgot); forgor
    Jag glum 💀
    I forgor 💀