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Grummest vs Rummest - What's the difference?

grummest | rummest |

As adjectives the difference between grummest and rummest

is that grummest is (grum) while rummest is (rum).

grummest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (grum)

    • Anagrams

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    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 ----

    rummest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (rum)

    • Quotations

    * 1895 , *: "Well it is the rummest thing I ever heard of—marrying an old husband again, and so much new blood in the world!"