grame

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noun

Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.

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OriginMiddle English grame ← Old English grama ← Proto-Germanic *gramô →
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Meanings

grame1

noungrame (uncountable)

alternative gram

  1. obsoleteuncountableAnger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
  2. obsoleteuncountableSorrow; grief; misery.

    Age doth me mvche grame.

    1548, Smyth & Dame, section 218
    2 more examples

    to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame

    a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “And wylt thow leve me thus” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 17 recto, lines 3 and 4

    God's strength shall be my trust, / Fall it to good or grame / 'Tis in his name.

    1872, Rossetti, Staff & Scrip, Poems (ed. 6), 49

grame2

verbgrame (third-person singular simple present grames, present participle graming, simple past and past participle gramed)

present singular third person grames · participle present graming · participle past gramed · past gramed · alternative gram

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo vex; grill; make angry or sorry.

    Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.

    1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235

    Synonyms: affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross

  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.

    The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.

    1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence, published 1864

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo vex; grill; make angry or sorry.

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Origin

grame · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʰrem-“to rub, grind, scrape”
  2. Proto-Germanic*gramô“anger”
  3. Old Englishgrama“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”
  4. Middle Englishgrame
  5. Englishgrame

From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.

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grame · verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʰrem-“to rub, grind, scrape”
  2. Proto-Germanic*gramjaną“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”
  3. Old Englishgramian
  4. Middle Englishgramen
  5. Englishgrame

From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

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