Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to glaum
Participle: glaumed
Gerund: glauming
Indicative
Present
| I | glaum |
| you | glaum |
| he;she;it | glaums |
| we | glaum |
| you | glaum |
| they | glaum |
Perfect
| I | have glaumed |
| you | have glaumed |
| he;she;it | has glaumed |
| we | have glaumed |
| you | have glaumed |
| they | have glaumed |
Past
| I | glaumed |
| you | glaumed |
| he;she;it | glaumed |
| we | glaumed |
| you | glaumed |
| they | glaumed |
Pluperfect
| I | had glaumed |
| you | had glaumed |
| he;she;it | had glaumed |
| we | had glaumed |
| you | had glaumed |
| they | had glaumed |
Future
| I | will glaum |
| you | will glaum |
| he;she;it | will glaum |
| we | will glaum |
| you | will glaum |
| they | will glaum |
Future Perfect
| I | will have glaumed |
| you | will have glaumed |
| he;she;it | will have glaumed |
| we | will have glaumed |
| you | will have glaumed |
| they | will have glaumed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | glaum |
| you | glaum |
| he;she;it | glaum |
| we | glaum |
| you | glaum |
| they | glaum |
Perfect
| I | have glaumed |
| you | have glaumed |
| he;she;it | have glaumed |
| we | have glaumed |
| you | have glaumed |
| they | have glaumed |
Imperfect
| I | glaumed |
| you | glaumed |
| he;she;it | glaumed |
| we | glaumed |
| you | glaumed |
| they | glaumed |
Pluperfect
| I | had glaumed |
| you | had glaumed |
| he;she;it | had glaumed |
| we | had glaumed |
| you | had glaumed |
| they | had glaumed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would glaum |
| you | would glaum |
| he;she;it | would glaum |
| we | would glaum |
| you | would glaum |
| they | would glaum |
Perfect
| I | would have glaumed |
| you | would have glaumed |
| he;she;it | would have glaumed |
| we | would have glaumed |
| you | would have glaumed |
| they | would have glaumed |
Imperative
| you | glaum |
| we | Let's glaum |
| you | glaum |
Verbs conjugated like 'glaum'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'glaum'
gaum,
glam,
glum,
alarm,
alarum,
alum,
claim,
clam,
claut,
claym,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- grope with the hands
- feel around
- grasp|snatch
- grasp
- to hold firmly, particularly with the hand
- begrasp, begrip, belock, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clutch, enclasp, fang, fondle, grab, grabble, grasp, grip, hang on, hold, hold on, hold tight, nim, seize, stranglehold, take
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Alteration of dialectal clam, claum (“to grope or grasp ineffectually, snatch”), from Middle English *clammen, *clemmen, from Old English clæmman, clemman, from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan, from Proto-Germanic *klamjaną. In some senses, likely influenced by clamber. Compare dialectal glaump, glamp (“to grasp, snatch at, clutch, grope", also "gulp”), Scots clam, claum (“to grope or grasp ineffectually, snatch”), Norwegian klemme (“to seize with claws”), Middle High German klemmen (“to squeeze”). Doublet of glom. Related also to English clamp. See: Old English '
clæmman', Middle High German '
klemmen'.
Sample Sentences
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My heart, for fear, gaed sough for sough, / To hear the thuds, and see the cluds / O' clans frae woods, in tartan duds, / Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three. [1789, “The Battle of Sherramuir”, Burns, Robert (lyrics):]
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"Few get what they glaum at." [1895, The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, page 194:]
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She plays a game of blind-man's bute, / Glaums at the first she touches; / Even if the coof has coin enough, / She multiplies his riches. [1908, The Caledonian, page 82:]
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"Katty, Katty Regan, for God's sake" he cried, all in a breath, his voice wild and high with surprise and despair, his hand glauming at nothing. Only with her last word had her own voice broken from her, letting him know whose[…] [1914, Joseph Mary Plunkett, The Irish Review, page 246:]
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... used to be always embracing me Josie whenever he was there meaning him of course glauming me over and when I said I washed up and down as sar as possible asking me did you wash[…] [2008 April 17, James Joyce, Ulysses, Oxford Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 695:]
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Pádraig Ó Cíobháin, of An Spidéal, heard the word glauming from his mother-in-law , Kathleen Lanigan, in Kilkenny. The good lady offered this gloss: 'She'd be going around the house glauming for something - searching for [it].' [1999, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, The Words We Use: Collection 3, volume 3, page 43:]
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Linda eyed Teddy intently, he was still glauming his mind for something, anything. He was not giving up. Linda asked himself, just what happened to this guy? Tina was still sulking from the balcony, Mrs Abebe attempted throughout the[…] [2022 October 19, Bongani Prince Zwane, The Ballarag's imagination Rush, Ukiyoto Publishing, →ISBN, page 213:]