grumness
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English
Etymology
Noun
grumness (uncountable)
- (rare, archaic) The quality of being grum (morose or sullen).
- 1675, Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, , London: Printed for Thomas Dring, , →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes , 1688, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 8:
- Hor. Well, Jack, by thy long abſence from the Town, the grumneſs of thy countenance, and the ſlovenlyneſs of thy habit; I ſhou'd give thee joy, ſhou'd I not, of Marriage?
References
- “grumness”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “grumness, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
