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Glum vs Lum - What's the difference?

glum | lum |

As nouns the difference between glum and lum

is that glum is light while lum is (scotland|northern england) a chimney.

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.

    lum

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A chimney.
    • (Robert Burns)
  • * 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 277:
    • they cleared the Manse and went up by the Mains, with the smell of the dung from its hot cattle-court, and the smell of the burning wood in its lums .
  • (Scotland, northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A woody valley.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A deep pool.

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