different between grame vs grime

English

Alternative forms

• gram

Etymology 1

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 *g?rem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adj), grim.

Noun

grame (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
2. (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
   • 1548, Smyth & Dame, 218:

     Age doth me mvche grame.

   • c. 1557 (published), Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus?, lines 3 and 4:

     To save thee from the blame / Of all my grief and grame.

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

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

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
   • 1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235:

     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.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
   • 1526, Skelton, Magnyf. (1864):

     The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.

Related terms

• gram

Anagrams

• Mager, Marge, e-gram, gamer, marge, regma

Italian

Adjective

grame f

1. feminine plural of gramo

English

Etymology

From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized note of Old English gr?ma (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?mô (“mask”). Possibly influenced by Danish grim (“soot, grime”), Old Dutch grijmsel, Middle Dutch grime, Middle Low German greme (“dirt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

grime (uncountable)

1. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.

2. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.

Derived terms

• grimeless
• grimy

Translations

Verb

grime (third-person singular simple present grimes, present participle griming, simple past and past participle grimed)

1. To begrime; to cake with dirt.

Derived terms

• begrime

Anagrams

• gerim

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??im/
• Homophones: griment, grimes

Verb

grime

1. first-person singular present indicative of grimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of grimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of grimer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of grimer
5. second-person singular imperative of grimer

Portuguese

Noun

grime m (uncountable)

1. (music) grime (a genre of urban music)

Scots

Alternative forms

• gryme, greim

Etymology

Of Flemish origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?i?m/

Verb

grime (third-person singular present grimes, present participle grimein, past grimet, past participle grimet)

1. (archaic) To sprinkle, fleck, or to cover with a layer of fine material (e.g. snow, dust).

Spanish

Noun

grime m (plural grimes)

1. grime (music genre)

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rim?/

Noun

grime c (no plural)

1. anger, wrath

Further reading

• “grime (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011