different between clum vs clumb

English

Alternative forms

• clumme

Etymology

From Middle English clum, clom (“silence”), perhaps for *clomen (“stiff, numb”), past participle of *cleomen (“to be stiff”); compare Middle English acleomen (“to be stiff”), related to Middle English clumsen, clomsen (“to be stiff, be numb”), Dutch kleumen (“to be stiff from cold”); or perhaps representing Old English clom, clam, clamm (“band, bond, fetter, chain, grip, grasp”). Compare also Old English clumian (“to mutter”). More at clam.

Noun

clum (plural clums)

1. (obsolete) Silence.

Interjection

clum

1. (obsolete) Silence; hush

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Adjective

clum (comparative more clum, superlative most clum)

1. (obsolete) Silent; glum.

Anagrams

• Culm, MCLU, culm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?m/

Etymology 1

From Middle English clumben, from Middle English clumbon (“climbed”), plural past tense of climban (“to climb”). More at climb, clomb.

Verb

clumb

1. (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of climb.
   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII

     It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.

Etymology 2

From Middle English clumben, yclumben, from Middle English ?eclumben (“climbed”), past participle of climban (“to climb”).

Verb

clumb

1. alternative past participle of climb.