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bridegroom

bride.groom \'bri-d-.gru:m, -.gru.m\ n [ME bridegome, fr. OE bry-dguma; 
   akin to OHG bru-tigomo] bridegroom; both fr. a prehistoric NGmc-WGmc 
   compound whose constituents are represented by OE bry-d and by OE guma man 
   : a man newly married or about to be married