coom

English

Etymology 1

Noun

coom (uncountable)

1. soot, smut
2. dust
3. grease

Etymology 2

See come.

Verb

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

1. Eye dialect spelling of come.
   • 1838–1839, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII, 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

Anagrams

• COMO, Como, MOOC, MoCo, moco