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Definition of Glummer
1. glum [adj] - See also: glum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glummer
Literary usage of Glummer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"but grew glum — glummer than I ever seed him; and I wondered, and fell to boxing
about my thoughts, more and more (deep sea sink that cursed thinking and ..."
2. Friendship's Offering, and Winter's Wreath.: And Winter's Wreath: a by Thomas Kibble Hervey, Leitch Ritchie (1829)
"... he calls to me for my blade to cut the bread and cheese he had got at the
village; and while he spoke I believed he looked glummer and glummer, ..."
3. Studies in Religion and Literature by William Samuel Lilly (1904)
"... whose facetiousness, never very refined, grew coarser and coarser as the
banquet proceeded, while the Doctor's face grew glummer and glummer. ..."
4. Eastern Nights by Alan John Bott (1919)
"With Hatton, Waite, and other Britishers we rejoiced greatly in private; while
the German soldiers became glummer and glummer, and the Austrian officers ..."
5. Things Seen: Impressions of Men, Cities, and Books by George Warrington Steevens, George Slythe Street (1900)
"But despite that cheering fact, the drive got glummer and glummer. Tiles, thatch,
or slates, every roof seemed to have fared the same. ..."
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