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Clum vs Clumb - What's the difference?

clum | clumb |

As a noun clum

is silence.

As an interjection clum

is silence; hush.

As an adjective clum

is silent; glum.

As a verb clumb is

past tense of climb.

clum

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Silence.

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (obsolete) Silence; hush
    • (Chaucer)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Silent; glum.
    • (Webster 1913)

    clumb

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) clumben, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dialect) (climb).
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
  • *:It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) clumben, yclumben, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • .