coom meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

coom

noun

Etymology From Middle English culme, colme, of unknown origin but probably from or related to Old English col (“coal”). Related to culm and Icelandic kámugur.

soot, smut

dust

grease

Derived terms: becoomed

coom

verb

Etymology See come.

Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of come.

“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.”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:

coom

noun

Etymology From Scots coom, of unknown origin.

Scotland The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.

Scotland Anything arched or vaulted.

Derived terms: coom-ceiled

coom

verb

Etymology An alteration of cum. See also coomer.

Humorous, Slang, Sometimes To ejaculate.

coom

noun

Etymology An alteration of cum. See also coomer.

Humorous, Slang, Sometimes Semen.

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