grum
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- grumly adverb
- grumness noun
Etymology
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
Some Deputies, though, were grum bling that Mifrifi is an overdose of a very disagreeable medicine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
For the King seemed to them no more gruff and grum than usual.
From John of the Woods by Brown, Abbie Farwell
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