Glum vs Grum - What's the difference?
glum | grum | Synonyms |
(obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
(obsolete) sullenness
despondent; moody; sullen
* Thackeray
Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 58:
Low, deep in the throat; guttural
Glum is a synonym of grum.
As adjectives the difference between glum and grum
is that glum is despondent; moody; sullen while grum is morose, stern, surly, sullen.As a verb glum
is (obsolete) to look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.As a noun glum
is (obsolete) sullenness.glum
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) glomen, glommen, glomben, . More at (l).Verb
(glumm)- (Hawes)
Noun
(-)- (Skelton)
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(glummer)- I frighten people by my glum face.
grum
English
Adjective
(grummer)- She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.
- a grum voice