glum

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Despondent; moody; sullen.

   I[…]frighten people by my glum face.

2. 2
   verb

   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 venum

3. 3
   noun

   sullenness

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

4. 4
   adj

   moody and melancholic

5. 5
   adj

   showing a brooding ill humor

Etymology

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.