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grume

[groom]

grume

[groom]
noun
1.
blood when viscous.
2.
a clot of blood.

Origin:
1545–55 for sense “lump”; < Late Latin grūmus hillock
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Grume is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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grume

noun
1. a thick viscous liquid 
2. a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells [syn: blood clot
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