grum
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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
Victim has a neat plot, deft direction by Basil Dearden, and the sort of grum good manners one expects of the British in these trying situations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some Deputies, though, were grum bling that Mifrifi is an overdose of a very disagreeable medicine.
From Time Magazine Archive
I didn't let 'im know no better, an' he wus grum all the way home.
From Westerfelt by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
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
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 Fanny Y. Cory
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