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grum

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ɡɹʌm/

Definition of grum

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
    “Look not so grum at me; there is something to make thee more cheerful. (Offering him money with one hand, while he receives the bag with the other.)”
    “She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.”
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adj

  1. Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
    “Look not so grum at me; there is something to make thee more cheerful. (Offering him money with one hand, while he receives the bag with the other.)”
    “She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.”
  2. Low, deep in the throat; guttural
    “a grum voice”

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Etymology

From Middle English grom, from Old English grom, gram (“angry, wrathful”), from Proto-Germanic *gramaz (“angry, bearing a grudge”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to thunder, rub, tear, scratch”). Probably influenced in form by glum. Compare also Danish grum (“cruel, atrocious, fell”), Swedish grym (“cruel, furious, terrible”). See also grim, gram, grump.

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