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grim¹

  • /ɡɹɪm/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪm

Where it comes from

From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).

adjective grimmer · grimmest

  1. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  2. Rigid and unrelenting. His grim determination enabled him to win.
  3. Ghastly or sinister. A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  4. Disgusting; gross. – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!
  5. obsolete Fierce, cruel, furious. The LORDE shall be grymme vpon them, and destroye all the goddes in the londe. And all the Iles of the Heithen shal worshipe him, euery man in his place.

verb grims · grimming · grimmed

  1. rare, transitive To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

noun grims

  1. Multicultural London English, dated, slang A promiscuous woman. You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong) But you didn't know your girl was a grim […] Your girl she's a grim, I wouldn't have no grim as my ting

grim²

  • /ɡɹɪm/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪm

Where it comes from

From Middle English grim, grym, greme, from Old English *grimu, *grimmu, grima, from Proto-Germanic *grimmį̄ (“anger, wrath”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grimme, Middle High German grimme f (“anger”), modern German Grimm m.

noun grims

  1. countable, obsolete, uncountable Anger, wrath.
  2. countable, obsolete, uncountable A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.

Grim³

  • /ɡɹɪm/

Sounds like grim · Rhymes with -ɪm

Where it comes from

Probably derived from Old English *Grīm, Old Norse Grímr (literally “masked person”).

proper noun

  1. An English surname

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