glum

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. sullenness obsolete,uncountable
    — That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum
动词 v.
  1. To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. obsolete
    — 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
形容词 adj.
  1. Despondent; moody; sullen.
    — I[…]frighten people by my glum face.

词形变化

glummer comparative glummest superlative glums present,singular,third-person glumming participle,present glummed participle,past glummed past

词源

词源 1
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
词源 2
From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom. The noun is from Middle English glome, from the verb.
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