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Clum vs Glum - What's the difference?

clum | glum |

In obsolete terms the difference between clum and glum

is that clum is silence; hush while glum is sullenness.

As an interjection clum

is silence; hush.

As a verb glum is

to look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

clum

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Silence.

    • Interjection

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

    Adjective

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

    glum

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) glomen, glommen, glomben, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (glumm)
  • (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
    • (Hawes)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) sullenness
    • (Skelton)

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (glummer)
  • despondent; moody; sullen
  • * Thackeray
    • I frighten people by my glum face.