Glumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

形容詞

glum (comparative glummer, superlative glummest)

1. Despondent; moody; sullen.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cheerless, Thesaurus:sullen

   • 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (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.

   • 2024 June 28, Mark Walsh, “Consider the wild gray squirrel, Kagan rebukes her colleagues as court overrules Chevron”, in SCOTUSblog:

     U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who had sought to save Chevron during hours of argument in January, looks slightly glum in her seat at the counsel tables.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom. The noun is from 中期英語 glome, from the verb.

動詞

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

名詞

glum (uncountable)

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

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

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