Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express surprise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A corruption or equivalent of vow, used in the expression “I vum,” a mild expletive or oath. Compare
swan .
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- verb US, colloquial To
vow ,swear . - interjection US An exclamation of
surprise .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The press is mostly in French and German — even the Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek is in German, despite the Luxembourgish title and date header.
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August 1862, als éischt vu fënnef Kanner, gouf de Claude Debussy als Jong vum Manuel-Achille Debussy a sénger Fra Victorine agedroen.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Klingon: Ta 'ghobe' meQ qul joq vum HoS daq juH Qovpatlh!
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"Well, I vum!" drawled the expressman, at length recovering speech.
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper
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"You millionaires 'round here git more time to read it than ever _I_ do, I vum!"
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper
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"I vum!" she exclaimed, sitting down for the first time in years "at the first table."
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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I shan't hev ter stand much on't, however; I'll be aout doors most of the time, when I _have_ ter, an 'I vum I'll be aout all the rest of the time because I _choose_ ter.
Randy and Her Friends Amy Brooks
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I thought I seen you hangin 'around Hope Drugg's store more'n a little lately; and I vum I thought
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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Nouns ending in the Nominative Singular in - vus, - vum, - quus, exhibited two types of inflection in the classical Latin, -- an earlier and a later, -- as follows: --
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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"I dew vum," a mild New England oath, "I do vow." idyl (i-dil), a short poem describing country life.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
qms commented on the word vum
A toady’s no more than a bum
Pretending some tyrant’s his chum.
There will be a reckoning,
For Old Nick is beckoning.
He’ll haste to that hearthside, I vum.
January 21, 2018