gloom n.
(US) a depressed and/or depressing individual.
[ | ![]() | in Tarheel Talk (1956) 274: Their daughter has eloped [...] it has the appearance of [...] glooming the Father for life]. |
![]() | My Life out of Prison 212: You’re getting to be a regular gloom. | |
![]() | This Side of Paradise in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald III (1960) 79: ‘I’ve got a class at eleven-thirty.’ ‘You damned gloom!’. | |
![]() | Bread-Winner Act I: Oh, God, you are a gloom, Judy. | |
![]() | Free To Love 112: He is, my precious old gloom, but why bring that up? | |
![]() | Scarlet Pansy 345: She is gay, not morose, not a gloom shedder. |
In compounds
a depressed individual.
![]() | Through the Wheat 55: Come out of it, you gloom bug. |
In phrases
(US) depressed or depressing.
![]() | Smile A Minute 27: It helps take people’s mind off of the war and prevents ’em from bein’ all gloomed up. |