Noun: groom
| Singular | groom |
| Plural | grooms |
Sample Sentences
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Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid. [2013 January 26, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:]
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the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole
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The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,
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Would make a miracle of thus much coin … [c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:]
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Going into the hall he saw a handsome groom, in a braided livery and a bear fur cape, holding a white fur cloak. [1901 [1878], chapter 19, in Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 4:]
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Give the mare a quick groom before you take her out.
Nouns inflected like groom
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1604, short for bridegroom (“husband-to-be”), from Middle English brydgrome, alteration (with intrusive r) of earlier bridegome (“bridegroom”), from Old English brȳdguma (“bridegroom”), from brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man, hero”). In Middle English, the second element was re-analyzed as or influenced by grom, grome (“attendant”). Guma derives from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō; it is cognate to Icelandic gumi (cf. Icelandic brúðgumi) and Norwegian gume and, ultimately, human. See: Middle English Nouns '
brydgrome', Old English Nouns '
brȳdguma', Icelandic Nouns '
gumi'.
Verbs referencing "groom"
Catalan Nouns
grum, Russian Nouns
грум.