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Grum vs Gruf - What's the difference?

grum | gruf |

As an adjective grum

is morose, stern, surly, sullen.

As an adverb gruf is

(obsolete) forwards; with one's face to the ground.

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 ----

    gruf

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) forwards; with one's face to the ground
    • They fellen gruf , and cryed piteously. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)