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Glub vs Glum - What's the difference?

glub | glum |

As nouns the difference between glub and glum

is that glub is the sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively) while glum is light.

glub

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).
  • * 2004 David L Roper - Son Of A Sharecropper: Growing Up in Oklahoma
    • The boat, which was filled with water, instantly—glub, glub —sank.
    English onomatopoeias

    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.