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▪ I. glum, n. rare.|glʌm|
Also 6 glome, glumme.
[f. glum v. or a.; cf. gloom n.]
†1. A sullen look. Obs.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 1118 She loked hawtly, and gave on me a glum, There was amonge them no worde then but mum. a1529― Bowge of Courte 80 On me she gaue a glome [rimes with come vb.] With browes bente. 1530Palsgr. 225/2 Glumme, a sower loke, rechigne.
2. Glumness, sullenness. nonce-use.
1825Lockhart in Scott's Fam. Lett. (1894) II. 323 It is much that the seven members have gone through it all without anything even like a single flash of glum.
▪ II. glum, a.|glʌm|
Also 6 glumme, glomme.
[Related to glum v. and gloom v.; cf. LG. glum turbid, muddy.]
1. Of persons: Sullen, frowning; having an air of dejection or displeasure, esp. in phr. to look glum; also to look glum on (a person, action, etc.).
1547Salesbury Welsh Dict., Gwg, glumme, lowring. 1556–8T. Phaer æneid iv. K ij b, She hym beheld wt loking glomme, With rollyng here and there her eyes, and still in sylens domme. 1567Drant Horace's Ep. To Rdr., If..they will by worde of mouthe be answered, then wellfayre my laste shootanchor, glum silence. 1674Ray N.C. Words 21 To be Glum, to look sadly or sowrly, to frown..A word common to the vulgar both in North and South. 1676G. Etherege Man of Mode ii. i. (1684) 16 You need not look so glum, Sir. 1678Rymer Tragedies 3 And not Athens only, but..so austere and glum a generation as those of Sparta..agreed the same honour to these Athenian Poets. 1755Johnson, Glum, a low cant word formed by corrupting gloom. 1771Foote Maid of B. iii. Wks. 1799 II. 229 You all sit as silent and glum—why, can't you speak out? 1786F. Burney Diary 6 Oct., The moment he sees any one that he..dislikes, he assumes a look of glum distance and sullenness. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 123 [He] is as glum and grim and cynical as his master. 1849Thackeray Lett. 4 Sept., I ought not to show you my glum face or my dismal feelings. 1887Besant The World went xiii. 108 [He] sat glum, and presently grew impatient and went out.
quasi-adv.1796R. Bage Hermsprong xii, I suppose at that time I might answer rather glum.
2. Of things: Gloomy, dark; dismal. Now only fig. from sense 1.
1557–8T. Phaer æneid vi. Q j, Thou Chaos, and you firy boyling pittes and places glumme. 1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 31 The glomest daye maye darken the sunne, but not abate his pride. 1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 6 The Glum And horrid beat of Thunders Drum We hear or see. 1848Thackeray Lett. 1 Nov., We walked in the park..surveying..the glum old bridge.
3. Comb., as glum-like, glum-looking adjs.
1756M. Calderwood Jrnl. viii. (1884) 219 Mr. Burrage was a glum-like carle. 1866Sat. Rev. 26 May 617/1 The air of the glum-looking Englishman..surveying mankind at a ball in Paris. 1888A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors vi, She was afraid to risk herself with such a glum-looking customer..I suppose.
▪ III. glum, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 glom, 5–6 glome, 6 glumme.
[var. of glo(u)mbe, gloom v.]
intr. To look sullen; to frown, scowl.
c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 596 Sir, I trow thai be dom somtyme were full melland; Will ye se how thai glom. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 166 Upon me he gan to loure and glum. 1530Palsgr. 568/2 It is a sower wyfe, she is ever glomyng. a1547Surrey in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 27 [He] hath his home Not..as a den vncleane: Nor palacelyke, wherat disdayn may glome. 1598Tom Tyler & Wife (1661) 5 He shall be soon appeased, If either he gaspeth or glometh. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., If thou doesn't want it, say thou doesn't: thou need not go and glum over it. |