begaum en · VERB
Etymology
From be- + gaum.
Meanings
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(UK, US, dialectal, past, rare) To smear (with something sticky or messy).
Honest toil! The kind that bedews a guy's brow with honest sweat and also begaums it with what came from the crank case and off the axle; […]
1926 January 2, Kennett Harris, “Onward and Upward Led”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 198, number 27, page 6:He was wearing jeans and a blue shirt too, but they wasn't all begaumed, the shirt had been clean afore he sweated it out clumbing up the hill.
1963, Dorothy B. Hughes, “The Granny Woman”, in Gamma, volume 1, number 2, page 5:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| begaumed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| begaumed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| begaums | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| begauming | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |