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
sullenness
That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
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