glum

• IPA^(key): /ɡlʌm/

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

glum (comparative glummer, superlative glummest)

1. despondent; moody; sullen
   • 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:

     I […] frighten people by my glum face.

   • 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz:

     […] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.

   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23:

     A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.

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

glum (third-person singular simple present glums, present participle glumming, simple past and past participle glummed)

1. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
   • 1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure:

     upon me he gan to loure and glum,
     Enforcing him so for to ryse withall,
     But that I shortly unto hem did cum,
     With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum

glum (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) sullenness
   • c. 1550, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute:

     That they be deaf and dumb,
     And play silence and glum

glum

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of glömde (“forgot”); forgor

   Jag glum 💀

   I forgor 💀