English

Noun

groomhood ‎(uncountable)

1. The state, quality, or condition of being a groom; groomdom.
   • 1899, THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES: FOURTH SERIES, VOL LXXII, 1899 - Page dccxxi:

     He need not reside in a room, but only in a bunk, and a bunk need not be rated for the relief of the poor. We talk about manhood suffrage, but what about groomhood suffrage?

   • 1929, The Sleeping Car Conductor - Volumes 12-13 - Page 25:

     [...] and those women who are joined to them in marriage, long to see Brother Knechtel before the blush of groomhood wears off his cheerful countenance, [...]

   • 1985, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Volume 9, Issues 10-13 - Page 59:

     As he reverts to groomhood, there enters in haste Adolesco himself from the secret corridor, who still has barely presence of mind to thank his impersonator, and they might have got into a discussion of the gelding's off rear pastern problem, [...]

   • 1991, The Indian Journal of Social Work - Volume 52 - Page 205:

     Some social scientists (Altekar, 1962; Aziz, 1983; Srinivas, 1984) attribute the increasing prevalence of dowry to the concept of groomhood being drastically changed from the normal eligible bachelor to a fancy product.

   • 2012, Avram Davidson, The Scarlet Fig:

     And besides, Vergil had already been some while ago made free of the Eleusinian bridehood and the groomhood, a mystagogue was he, of that and of other mysteries, perhaps lesser known, if not, who shall say: [...]

Related terms

• groomship