grum
Americanadjective
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Origin of grum
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
His wife, who thought a great deal of the good Giant, was sorry to see that he was silent and rather grum.
From Ting-a-ling by Stockton, Frank Richard
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