gum

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See also: Gum and GUM

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: gŭm, IPA(key): /ɡʌm/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English gome, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-Germanic *gōmô, *gaumô (“palate”) (compare German Gaumen, Old Norse gómr (whence Icelandic gómur)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂u-mo- (compare Tocharian A ko, Tocharian B koyṃ (“mouth”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to gape, yawn”). More at yawn.

Noun[edit]

gum (plural gums)

  1. (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from gum (noun, etymology 1)
Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

  1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
  2. (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”).

Noun[edit]

gum (countable and uncountable, plural gums)

  1. (chiefly uncountable) Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.
  2. (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.
  3. (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
  4. (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
    Do you have a gum to spare?
    • 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 388:
      Levi unwrapped a gum and put it in his mouth.
  5. (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
  6. (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
  7. (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
  8. (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
  9. A gum tree.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
chewing gum — see chewing gum
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Verb[edit]

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

  1. (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
    • 2012, Julie Hedgepeth Williams, A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival, →ISBN, page 184:
      However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint.
  2. To stiffen with glue or gum.
  3. (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
    • 1946, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language:
      It consists in gumming together long strips of words [that] have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.
  4. (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
    That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.
    The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.
Derived terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gum

  1. genitive plural of guma

Dutch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • gom (now restricted to Belgium in the meaning “eraser”).

Etymology[edit]

A relatively recent variant of gom.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɣʏm/
  • Hyphenation: gum

Noun[edit]

gum m (plural gummen, diminutive gummetje n)

  1. An eraser.

Derived terms[edit]

Hausa[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɡùm/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɡʷʊ̀m]

Ideophone[edit]

gùm

  1. smelling bad

Alternative forms[edit]

Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention, heed”)[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gum n (genitive singular gums, no plural)

  1. boasting, exaggeration
    Synonyms: gort, raup

Declension[edit]

declension of gum
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gum gumið gum gumin
accusative gum gumið gum gumin
dative gumi guminu gumum gumunum
genitive gums gumsins guma gumanna

Derived terms[edit]

  • guma (“to boast, to exaggerate”)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “gumen”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 195

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

gum

  1. Alternative form of gumme

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gum f pl

  1. genitive plural of guma

Salar[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *kum. Compare to Turkish kum, etc.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Ejia, Daowei, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [kum]

Noun[edit]

gum (3rd person possessive gumı, plural gumlar)

  1. sand

References[edit]

  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “kum”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 395
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “gum”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 109

Scots[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From English gum.

Noun[edit]

gum (plural gums)

  1. gum

Etymology 2[edit]

Uncertain; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

gum (plural gums)

  1. mist, vapour, haze

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

gum

  1. that
    Tha mi cinnteach gum biodh e toilichte. - I'm certain that he would be happy.

Usage notes[edit]

  • Used before b, f, m and p.

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

gum

  1. Romanization of 𒄣 (gum)

Turkmen[edit]

Noun[edit]

gum (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. sand

Zazaki[edit]

Noun[edit]

gum

  1. (anatomy) cheek
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