Groom
31Groom — This name derives from the Medieval English grom(e) meaning a man servant, but in some places was specialized to mean shepherd goat herd etc. as the following recordings prove John Lambegrom (Cambridgeshire 1279), John Schepgrom (Essex, 1327) and …
32groom — groom1 [gru:m, grum] v 1.) [T] to clean and brush an animal, especially a horse 2.) [T] to prepare someone for an important job or position in society by training them over a long period groom sb for sth ▪ Tim was being groomed for a managerial… …
33groom — /grum / (say groohm) noun 1. a person employed to tend horses. 2. a man newly married, or about to be married; bridegroom. 3. any of several officers of a royal household. 4. Obsolete a manservant. –verb (t) 5. to tend carefully as to person and… …
34groom — Originally used of a boy, then a man, ‘groom’ came to mean a male servant, and finally, a servant who looked after horses. Bridegroom simply means brideman. ‘Groom’, addressed to a servant, mainly occurs as a vocative in the seventeenth… …
35groom — groomer, n. groomish, adj. groomishly, adv. /groohm, groom/, n. 1. a bridegroom. 2. a man or boy in charge of horses or the stable. 3. any of several officers of the English royal household. 4. Archaic. a manservant. v.t. 5. to tend carefully as… …
36groom — groom1 [ grum ] noun count 1. ) a BRIDEGROOM 2. ) someone who takes care of horses groom groom 2 [ grum ] verb 1. ) intransitive or transitive to take care of your appearance by keeping your hair, body, and clothes clean and neat: Dan spends… …
37groom — [13] No one has ever been able satisfactorily to explain where the word groom came from. It suddenly appears in early Middle English, meaning ‘boy, male servant’ (the sense ‘one who takes care of horses’ is a 17th century development), and none… …
38groom — 1 verb 1 (T) to take care of animals, especially horses, by cleaning and brushing them 2 (I, T) to take care of your own appearance by keeping your hair and clothes clean and tidy: a well groomed woman in her twenties 3 (T) to prepare someone for …
39groom — 1. verb 1) she groomed her pony Syn: curry, brush, comb, clean, rub down 2) his dark hair was carefully groomed Syn: brush, comb, arrange, do; tidy, spruce up, smarten up …
40groom — bride·groom; groom; …
