Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man.
- noun An obsolete) or dialectal form of
gum .
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- noun
Heed ;attention ;notice ;care . - noun A
man . - noun obsolete
lord ;Lord ;God . - noun dialectal Blunted
teeth on a saw.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Michael Donner for The Wall Street Journal GUM (pronounced "goom"), Moscow's most famous department store, runs the length of Red Square.
Moscow Deco 2008
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Lower and lower crouched the Monumwezi, drawing apart with their deep "goom"; drawing suddenly to a common centre with the sharp
The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909
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In the Buli language of Ghana children say "goom-jigi."
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Complete with little bride and goom cows you had to have been there...
You, Too, Can Have Teletubby Poo Jen 2008
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The rest of his party were crowding into the living-goom, two of the musket men appearing from the bedroom into which they must have made their way by another window.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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A door, thrown open in the midships bulkhead, revealed a dining-goom, an oblong table with white damask, glittering silver, sparkling glasses, while more stewards in white ducks were ranged against the bulkhead.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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The uncanny blue gleam lit the room, but soon the haze of smoke made everything dim, and the fumes of the burning sulphur offended their nostrils as the fireworks hissed and roared, while Hornblower went on lighting fuses and thrusting the blue lights where they would he most effective in living-goom and bedroom.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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It never occurred to him that we were still as far as ever from the goal, and that it would be quite as inconvenient to explain that the termination _goom_ was a derivation from the Anglo-Saxon _guma_ as that it was a corruption of it; the point to be gained being, after all, that we should be able to find out the meaning of the English word
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The impressive utterers of the _goom-zup_ shibboleth, the slayers of the symbolical lion, carried on still.
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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All outside the focus of the dancers turned gray -- _goom, zup! goom, zup!
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
whichbe commented on the word goom
The original spelling of groom.
June 30, 2009
seanahan commented on the word goom
Where did the r come from?
July 1, 2009
bilby commented on the word goom
Pirates gatecrashed the nuptials.
July 1, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word goom
a goom with a view *belongs in a list 'change one letter'*
May 6, 2010