clum
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English clum, clom (“silence”), perhaps for *clomen (“stiff, numb”), past participle of *cleomen (“to be stiff”); compare Middle English acleomen (“to be stiff”), related to Middle English clumsen, clomsen (“to be stiff, be numb”), Dutch kleumen (“to be stiff from cold”); or perhaps representing Old English clom, clam, clamm (“band, bond, fetter, chain, grip, grasp”). Compare also Old English clumian (“to mutter”). More at clam.
Noun
[edit]clum (plural clums)
Interjection
[edit]clum
Adjective
[edit]clum (comparative more clum, superlative most clum)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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[edit]Middle English
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[edit]clum
- quiet; silence; hush
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3638-3639:
- ‘Now, Pater-noster, clom!’ seyde Nicholay,
And ‘clom,’ quod John, and ‘clom,’ seyde Alisoun.- "Now, Pater-noster, quiet!" said Nicholay,
And "quiet," said John, and "quiet," said Alisoun.
- "Now, Pater-noster, quiet!" said Nicholay,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3638-3639:
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