different between gloaming vs glooming

English

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English gl?mung, from Old English gl?m (“twilight”); synchronically gloom +? -ing. Related to glow.

The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English gl?mung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ? was shortened in the compound ?fen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject gl?mung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English gl?ming, modern English gloaming."

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l??.m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??lo?.m??/
• Rhymes: -??m??

Noun

gloaming (plural gloamings)

1. (poetry, Scotland, Northern England) Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.

   Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight

   Antonyms: daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness
2. (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.

   Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, misery, sadness, sorrow, woe

Translations

Verb

gloaming

1. present participle of gloam

References

English

Etymology 1

Verb

glooming

1. present participle of gloom
   • 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady

     Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.

Etymology 2

Compare gloaming.

Noun

glooming (plural gloomings)

1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
   • 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism

     When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures

     the balmy glooming, crescent-lit

2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

Synonyms

• (twilight): crepuscule, twilight, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
• (gloomy behaviour): misery, sadness, sorrow, woe