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Grom vs Grum - What's the difference?

grom | grum |

As a noun grom

is (surfing|snowboarding|skimboarding|slang) a young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.

As an adjective grum is

morose, stern, surly, sullen.

grom

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (surfing, snowboarding, skimboarding, slang) A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.
    • They were having this contest for grommets. The waves were micro. Even the groms were disgusted.

    Synonyms

    * grommet

    See also

    * grummet ----

    grum

    English

    Adjective

    (grummer)
  • Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 58:
    • She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.
  • Low, deep in the throat; guttural
    • a grum voice

    Synonyms

    * glum * grim * sour

    Derived terms

    * grumly * grumness ----