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Webster 1913 Edition


Coom

Coom

,
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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