Glum

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mid 16th century: related to dialect glum ‘to frown’, variant of gloom.


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Probably from Middle Low German glum(“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm(“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.

From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben(“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom(“gloom”). More at gloom.


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glum (adj.)

1540s, "sullen, moody, frowning," from Middle English gloumen (v.) "become dark" (c. 1300), later gloumben "look gloomy or sullen" (late 14c.); see gloom. Or from or influenced by Low German glum "gloomy, troubled, turbid." In English the word was also formerly a noun meaning "a sullen look" (1520s). An 18c. extended or colloquial form glump led to the expression the glumps "a fit of sulkiness." Glunch (1719) was a Scottish variant. Related: Glumly; glumness.