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No Arab has ever attempted to teach them the Arabic-Koran, they are called guma, hard, or difficult as to religion.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

One Tiger Woods 'guma apologizes for her home wrecking affair

Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide: Tiger Woods Is A Baby, But His Wife Does A Real Man's Work 2009

No, the guma is somebody who ` s over there waiting just for Tony.

CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008 2008

Do you think they ` re emotionally attached to the guma?

CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008 2008

The Middle English word was 'bridegome', with second element from Old English 'guma' meaning 'man'.

languagehat.com: TIDAL WAVE. 2004

[4] 'Seld-guma' (249) is variously rendered: (1) _housecarle_; (2) _home-stayer_; (3) _common man_.

Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

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

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

[3] Might 'guma gilp-hladen' mean 'a man laden with boasts of the deeds of others '?

Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

Swâ bealdode bearn Ecgþeówes, guma gûðum cûð, gôdum dædum,

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

Swā bealdode bearn Ecgþēowes, guma gūðum cūð, gōdum dǣdum,

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879