coom

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English

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Etymology 1

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Related to Icelandic kámugur.

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Noun

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coom (uncountable)

  1. soot, smut
  2. dust
  3. grease
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Etymology 2

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See come.

Verb

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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

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Noun

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coom (plural cooms)

  1. (Scotland) The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
  2. (Scotland) Anything arched or vaulted.
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Etymology 4

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An alteration of cum. See also coomer.

Noun

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coom (uncountable)

  1. (slang, sometimes humorous) semen

Verb

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

  1. (slang, sometimes humorous) to ejaculate

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