different between clum vs slum

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): /sl?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

Early 19th century. Originally slang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom" [attested 1812]; of unknown origin.

Noun

slum (countable and uncountable, plural slums)

1. (countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:slum

   • 1855, Charles Dickens, "Gambling", in Household Words Volume 31

     Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi:

     I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
2. (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

slum (third-person singular simple present slums, present participle slumming, simple past and past participle slummed)

1. (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

Derived terms

• slum it
• slummer

Etymology 2

See slumgullion.

Noun

slum (uncountable)

1. (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

Further reading

• slum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lums, MLUs, UMLS, lums

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slum]
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

slum m

1. slum (dilapidated neighborhood)

Further reading

• slum in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

slum m (definite singular slummen, indefinite plural slummar, definite plural slummane)

1. a slum

References

• “slum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???m

Noun

slum f (definite sluma)

1. Old, sour and blue buttermilk without cream.