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grum

American  
[gruhm] / grʌm /

adjective

grummer, grummest
  1. grim; glum; surly.


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Etymology

Origin of grum

1630–40; probably blend of grim and glum

Example Sentences

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The ringing sound “belled through the grum of the tractor that grundled up from the collecting yard.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

Although Paddy today admits that a few members still will not speak to him, for all his gruff and grum, he is frequently remembered with affection as a mildly eccentric but effective Club Secretary.

From Golf Digest May 5, 2020

And, peace, the grum bling reader is also grateful.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some Deputies, though, were grum bling that Mifrifi is an overdose of a very disagreeable medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would sit, grum enough, with his feet higher than his head, chewing an unlighted cigar, and leave them both thankful when he saw proper to go.

From Margret Howth, a Story of To-day by Davis, Rebecca Harding

And in the pond lived a whole colony of great green bullfrogs, whose voices were gruffer and grummer than the lowest twanging note on Hervé's harp.

From The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Cory, Fanny Y.

When the files Of the isles, From the smoky night encampment, bore the banner of the rampant Unicorn; And grummer, grummer, grummer, rolled the roll of the drummer Through the morn!

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various

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