glom

Meanings

1. To take.
2. To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
3. To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.

1. Alternative form of glaum (“look, stare”).

1. Clipping of glomerulus.

1. Acronym of girls living off men.

Etymology

From Scottish English glom, glaum (“to grab or snatch at”), a variant of clam, claum (“to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for”), from Middle English *clammen, from Old English clæmman (“to pinch, press, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan. Related to clamp.