Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Empty.
- noun A piece of waste ground where rubbish is shot.
- To empty.
- noun Vacant time; leisure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. Empty.
- transitive verb Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot. To empty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Vacant time,leisure . - adjective rare or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland
Empty . - noun A piece of
waste ground where rubbish is shot. - verb rare or dialectal To
empty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Oh ok, so thats a lie, I first thought the feet looked like grandma had spent a little toom much time outside and now her nips were turning blue, but can you blame me?
Funny Business 2010
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We didn't they noticed that Obama's shirt look wringle adn the background has toom uch going on.
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I have shown the working any criticisms are easily made the final interation is aonly a bit of fun really as the peeiod is toom long.
Our Changing Bus Newmania 2007
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Alas – ai did nawt see teh wun at teh toom ov Hatshepsut.
BUKKIT SERCH PARTY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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* But that doesn't stop my belle-maman* from taking "un petit brin" * to her 'little neighbor' downstairs, a coo-toom* she took up several years ago, to add cheer to the lonely foyer of another forgotten heart.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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I bought it at the big toom in Frankfurt, I think, but I had new-mommy brain, so I might be remembering incorrectly.
Ants!!!! C N Heidelberg 2008
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‘Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?’ said
Redgauntlet 2008
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* But that doesn't stop my belle-maman* from taking "un petit brin" * to her 'little neighbor' downstairs, a coo-toom* she took up several years ago, to add cheer to the lonely foyer of another forgotten heart.
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* But that doesn't stop my belle-maman* from taking "un petit brin" * to her 'little neighbor' downstairs, a coo-toom* she took up several years ago, to add cheer to the lonely foyer of another forgotten heart.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Spent 10 hours organizing my home office and cleaning the dining toom for thanksgiving with my organizer friend I hired - while my husband ate at a great restaurant, played music at the biggest most fabulous club in SF and then went to the hardest to get in afterhours with full on VIP treatment, all of which is technically his job.
fix-o-dent 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word toom
moot backwards
January 14, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word toom
also to pour
February 8, 2013
bilby commented on the word toom
See also toomly.
July 7, 2022