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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration of vow.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]vum (third-person singular simple present vums, present participle vumming, simple past and past participle vummed)
- (US, colloquial) To vow, swear.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Ch. 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- I vum it's Sunday—you won't see that harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere—come along then; do come; won't ye come?
Interjection
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Luxembourgish
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Romanian
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Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]vum (nominative plural vums)
Declension
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