glum

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom.

Verb [edit]

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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hawes to this entry?)

Noun [edit]

glum (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) sullenness
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Skelton to this entry?)

Etymology 2 [edit]

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

Adjective [edit]

glum (comparative glummer, superlative glummest)

  1. despondent; moody; sullen
    • Thackeray
      I frighten people by my glum face.
Translations [edit]
despondent
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