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glums

glums is the third-person singular simple present indicative of glum.

Meaning of glum

Verb

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.
    • 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 venum1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure

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Questions about glums

What is glums the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Glums is the third-person singular simple present indicative of glum.

Words near glums in the dictionary

  1. glumpiness
  2. glumping
  3. glumpish
  4. glumps
  5. glumpy
  6. glums
  7. Glumsø
  8. glunch
  9. glunge
  10. Glunt
  11. Glunts

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