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coom en · NOUN · etymology 1

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.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) soot, smut
2. (uncountable) dust
3. (uncountable) grease

Deriveds

becoomed

coom en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See come.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Pronunciation spelling of come.
   alt 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:

Forms

coom en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Scots coom, of unknown origin.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
2. (Scotland) Anything arched or vaulted.

Forms

Deriveds

coom-ceiled

coom en · NOUN · etymology 4

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt Proto-Germanic *kwemaną Proto-West Germanic *kweman Old English cuman Middle English comen English come English cum English coom An alteration of cum. See also coomer.

Meanings

1. (humorous, slang, sometimes, uncountable) Semen.

coom en · VERB · etymology 4

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt Proto-Germanic *kwemaną Proto-West Germanic *kweman Old English cuman Middle English comen English come English cum English coom An alteration of cum. See also coomer.

Meanings

1. (humorous, slang, sometimes) To ejaculate.

Forms