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  • noun Plural form of goom.

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Examples

  • In the CPIM ruled Bengal, the leadership of these social fascists always provoked, guided and led its gooms in arsons, loot, dacoity, rape, killings and what not.

    A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

  • Mr. Hicks cried, delightedly: "He's takin 'a cast of his gooms -- I told him about it."

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • "Well, there's two ways: you can send to Mungummery-Ward and have a crate sent out on approval, and keep tryin 'till you find a set that fits, or you can take the cast off your gooms yourself, send it on and have 'em hammer you out some to order."

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • And there Serepta sot right in front of 'em with her gooms achin 'and her face all swelled out, and lookin' like furiation, and couldn't say a word.

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

  • And they hurt her gooms too, and she carried 'em back to the dentist and wanted him to make her another set, but he acted mean and wouldn't take 'em back, and sued Lank for the pay.

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

  • Mebbe it wuz his tooth; I can't dispute it, never havin 'seen his gooms.

    Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

  • And there Dorlesky sot right in front of 'em with her gooms achin ', and her face all pokin' out, and lookin 'like furyation, and couldn't say a word.

    Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

  • And I do believe it is the raspin 'of them teeth aginst her gooms, and her discouraged and mad feelin's every time she looks in a glass, that helps to embitter her towards men, and the laws men have made, so's a woman can't have the control over her own teeth and her own bones.

    Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

  • 'em to this day, and I believe it is the raspin 'of them teeth aginst her gooms and her discouraged, mad feelin's every time she looks in the glass that helps embitter her towards men, and the laws men have made, so's a woman can't have control of her own teeth and her own bones.

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

  • What kind of stuff do they use to make the cast of your gooms of? "

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

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