Talk:goom
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RFV-sense of several senses:
- "A man." There's one valid citation of gome under this sense; the other citations are all mentions, and arguably not even mentions of a modern English word but of a Middle or Old English word.
- "lord; Lord; God."
- "Heed; attention; notice; care."
- "Blunted teeth on a saw." This has two citations, but one is a mention, and the other, which I just added, is iffy (mentiony).
I checked all the Google Books hits for "my goom", and the first 25 pages of hits for "the goom", and added all the useful citations I could find to the entry or the citations page. Most of the hits were scannos for groom, gloom, goods, or room, or of goomba(y) across a line-break. Most of the rest were of the senses "gum" and "alcohol" which I just added. Numerous books seem to contain uses of goom with the sense 'groom", until you realize that they contain more instances of groom than goom and that the instances of goom are typos. (To save people the trouble of citing them, here's a non-exhaustive list of books where goom occurs as a typo alongside groom: The Everything Jewish Wedding Book, Fifteenth Report to the Legislature of Vermont [...for] 1871, Annual Report of the Boston Registry, Rethinking in Marriage Institution, Yesterday and tomorrow in Ezaa and Izii's today, Kinship and power structure in rural Bangladesh, Where the green grasses are, The remember box, Philippine Journal of Linguistics.) There are also many hits of Goom as a first name and as a last name. - -sche (discuss) 03:41, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
- In an effort to find the "heed" sense, I just tried "(took|take|taking|pay|paid|paying) no goom" and some other phrases that worked when I was citing gaum (“heed”), but they turned up nothing. - -sche (discuss) 06:58, 10 February 2015 (UTC)