grim

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ɡɹɪm/    /ɡɹɪm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A promiscuous woman. Multicultural-London-English,dated,slang
    — You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong) But you didn't know your girl was a grim […] Your girl she's a grim, I wouldn't have no grim as my ting
  2. Anger, wrath. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  3. A specter, ghost, haunting spirit. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. rare,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
    — Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  2. Rigid and unrelenting.
    — His grim determination enabled him to win.
  3. Ghastly or sinister.
    — A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  4. Disgusting; gross.
    — – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!
  5. Fierce, cruel, furious. obsolete
    — The LORDE shall be grymme vpon them, and destroye all the goddes in the londe. And all the Iles of the Heithen shal worshipe him, euery man in his place.

词形变化

grimmer comparative grimmest superlative grims present,singular,third-person grimming participle,present grimmed participle,past grimmed past grims plural grims plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).
词源 2
From Middle English grim, grym, greme, from Old English *grimu, *grimmu, grima, from Proto-Germanic *grimmį̄ (“anger, wrath”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grimme, Middle High German grimme f (“anger”), modern German Grimm m.
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