paum

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English

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Etymology

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See palm (to cheat).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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paum (third-person singular simple present paums, present participle pauming, simple past and past participle paumed)

  1. (obsolete) To palm off by fraud.
  2. (obsolete) To cheat at cards.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for paum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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