coom

English

Etymology 1

Related to Icelandic kámugur.

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Noun

coom (uncountable)

1. soot, smut
2. dust
3. grease

Derived terms

• becoomed

Etymology 2

See come.

Verb

coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past came, past participle coom)

1. Pronunciation spelling of come.
   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Illustrative of the convivial Sentiment, that the best of Friends must sometimes part”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 411:

     “Not a bit,” replied the Yorkshireman, extending his mouth from ear to ear. “There I lay, snoog in schoolmeasther’s bed long efther it was dark, and nobody coom nigh the pleace. ‘Weel!’ thinks I, ‘he’s got a pretty good start, and if he bean’t whoam by noo, he never will be; so you may coom as quick as you loike, and foind us reddy’—that is, you know, schoolmeasther might coom.”

Etymology 3

Noun

coom (plural cooms)

1. (Scotland) The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
2. (Scotland) Anything arched or vaulted.

Derived terms

• coom-ceiled

Etymology 4

See coomer.

Verb

coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past and past participle came or coomed)

1. (slang) to ejaculate

Anagrams

• COMO, Como, MOOC, MoCo, moco