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Webster 1913 Edition

Coom

Coom

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Noun.
[Cf. G.
kahm
mold gathered on liquids, D.
kam
, Sw.
kimrök
pine soot, smoke black, Icel.
kām
grime, film of dirt.]
Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.
Phillips. Bailey.

Webster 1828 Edition

Coom

COOM

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Noun.
Soot that gathers over an ovens mouth; also, the matter that works out of the naves or boxes of carriage wheels. In Scotland, the useless dust which falls from coals.

Definition 2024

coom

coom

English

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.”

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