vroom

English

Etymology

Imitative

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɹuːm/
• IPA^(key): /vɹum/, /vɹʊm/
• Rhymes: -uːm, -ʊm

Interjection

vroom

1. The sound of an engine revving up.

   I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.

Translations

the sound of a sports car’s engine

• Armenian: ղմ-ղմ (ġm-ġm)
• Dutch: vroem
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• French: vroum (fr)
• German: wrumm

Noun

vroom (plural vrooms)

1. The sound of an engine revving up.
   • 2003, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 48, number 2, page 52)

     Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.

Verb

vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)

1. (informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

See also

• putt putt

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vrōme (“firm, upright”), an adjective derived from the noun vrōme (“benefit, use”), from Old Dutch *fruma, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vroːm/

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• Rhymes: -oːm

Adjective

vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)

1. pious, devout

   Synonym: godvruchtig

Inflection

Declension of vroom
uninflected	vroom
inflected	vrome
comparative	vromer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		vroom	vromer	het vroomst het vroomste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	vrome	vromere	vroomste
	n. sing.	vroom	vromer	vroomste
	plural	vrome	vromere	vroomste
definite		vrome	vromere	vroomste
partitive		vrooms	vromers	—