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Vinony

glum

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɡlʌm/

adj

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

  1. Despondent; moody; sullen.

    “I[…]frighten people by my glum face.”

    “[…] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.”

noun

Etymology: 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. sullenness

    “That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum”

verb

Etymology: 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. To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

    “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”