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grimsome

adj

Etymology

From grim + -some.

  1. derived from *gʰrem-✻ — “to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”
  2. inherited from *grimmaz✻
  3. inherited from *grimm✻
  4. inherited from grimm
  5. inherited from grim
  6. suffixed as grimsome — “grim + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by grimness

    Characterised or marked by grimness; somber

    • Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle?
    • “[...] Is there something on your mind that you need you want to talk about cause you scaring me with that wide eyed grimsome look”?
    • The poor ragged old soul continued to gasp, / Barely puffing out his last grimsome yasp, “You, young plop, are one part Oxygen, / Which fish borrow or steal, / It's here again, gone again. Do you miss it? How do you feel?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA