groom

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɹuːm/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ɡɹʉwm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹum/ (Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɡɹʉːm/ (Wales) IPA(key): /ɡɾuːm/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɡɾʉm/ (Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ɡɻʉm/ Rhymes: -uːm Hyphenation: groom === Etymology 1 === 1604, short for bridegroom (“husband-to-be”), from Middle English brydgrome, alteration (with intrusive r) of earlier bridegome (“bridegroom”), from Old English brȳdguma (“bridegroom”), from brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man, hero”). In Middle English, the second element was re-analyzed as or influenced by grom, grome (“attendant”). Guma derives from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō; it is cognate to Icelandic gumi (cf. Icelandic brúðgumi) and Norwegian gume and, ultimately, human. ==== Noun ==== groom (plural grooms) A man who is about to marry. Synonym: bridegroom ===== Coordinate terms ===== bride bride-to-be ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English grom, grome (“man-child, boy, youth”), of uncertain origin. Apparently related to Middle Dutch grom (“boy”), Old Icelandic grómr, gromr (“man, manservant, boy”), Old French gromme (“manservant”), and also to Middle Dutch grom (“fish guts”), Middle Low German grôm (“fish guts”), from the same Proto-Germanic root. Possibly from Old English *grōm, from Proto-West Germanic *grōm (“swollen belly, stomach tumour, womb-child, fish roe, fish guts”), from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow”). Alternative etymology describes Middle English grom, grome as an alteration of gome (“man”) with an intrusive r (also found in bridegroom, hoarse, cartridge, etc.), with the Middle Dutch and Old Icelandic cognates following similar variation of their respective forms. ==== Noun ==== groom (plural grooms) A person who looks after horses. Synonyms: fettler, horsekeeper, ostler, (India) sais, (Hong Kong) mafoo One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. (archaic) A male servant, or more generally, a common man. A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== groom (third-person singular simple present grooms, present participle grooming, simple past and past participle groomed) To attend to one's appearance and clothing. Synonym: primp (transitive) To care for (horses or other animals) originally with the wider meaning of feeding, currying and tending to them, but later reduced to now mean by brushing and cleaning them. 2010 (April 20) "The Collection" s1e6 of TV series Justified The wife didn't care about riding, but Owen did. Well, he cared about me. I went from doing everything — grooming, feeding, looking out — to being handed the reins of the most magnificent creatures ready to ride. (transitive) To prepare (someone) for an event 1912, The Contest for California in 1861: How Colonel E.D. Baker Saved the Pacific States to the Union, page 51 It appears that Broderick's seconds, although cool, brave men, were entirely without experience in arranging a duel, and did not know that a man should be groomed for one as carefully as a horse is groomed for a race. (transitive) To prepare (someone) for election or appointment. 1953, The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year page 146 It is of special interest to note the subjects considered as important to those who are being groomed for top administrative posts 2002, Clone High episode 1 - "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" Our mission is to unfreeze those clones, send them back to high school, and secretly groom them to one day rule the world. Failure to do so could mean world leaders just keep getting worse. 2009, Dani Johnson, Grooming the Next Generation for Success 2012 (February 28) in "The Man Behind the Curtain" s3e7 of TV series Justified I was the son he always wanted. He groomed me to take over someday, but now Sammy's got the houses, the cars, the money, the juice. 2023 in "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon" episode 5 "Deux Amours" regarding Laurent Daryl "But he's gonna be safe? I'm afraid those nuns raised him a little -- a little soft."Losang "He'll be well looked after. Nurtured and groomed... to be the leader he's destined to be." (transitive, law) To gain, or attempt to gain, the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually (if under the age of consent). 2009, Suzanne Ost, Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses (transitive, software engineering) In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog. (transitive) To prepare (a ski slope) for skiers by packing down the snow. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Further reading === Groom in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) === Anagrams === Mogor == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English groom. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡʁum/ === Noun === groom m (plural grooms) bellboy groom (person who looks after horses) groom (servant) doorstop === Further reading === “groom”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012