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From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma.
Meanings
(uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
gum-oleo-resin
gum arabic
(uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
[…] becoomed wi' the gum o' the coal-hill […] 1833, John Kennedy, Geordie Chalmers; or, the Law in Glenbuckie, page 205:
gum benzoin
(uncountable) Chewing gum.
(countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
Levi unwrapped a gum and put it in his mouth. 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 388:
Do you have a gum to spare?
(South-Africa, countable, in-plural, often, uncountable) A gummi candy.
(Southern-US, US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
(Southern-US, US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
(US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A rubber overshoe.
(countable, uncountable) A gum tree.
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(etymology 2)) · gumchewing (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-senegal (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-boiler (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · flooded gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-succory (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · snow gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum tree (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · sour gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Tasmanian blue gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Cape gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum pot (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · acaroid gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · stick of gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum arabic (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-chewer (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum up the works (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · kauri gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum printing (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum passage (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · snappy gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · river gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum albanum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gumland (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum sandarac (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum lift (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gumball (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · white gum poison (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · spruce gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum animal (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum turpentine (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · degum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum band (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum plant (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · cow gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-tip (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gummage (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Gum Flat (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum boot (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · cabbage gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Salmon Gums (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · hog gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · sonora gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum animé (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · weeping snow gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum bichromate (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum eurphorbium (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-seal (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · water-gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum succory (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Arabian gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · yellow gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Orenburg gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-field (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · swamp gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · oleogum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum camphor (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-bucket (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum water (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum resin (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · wood gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum of ivy (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · mahogany gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum cistus (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · sterculia gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · xanthan gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum dammar (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · orange gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · up a gum tree (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gumwood (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · sugar gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gellan gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · red gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · strike me up a gum tree (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · sweetgum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Gum Creek (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · free gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · carob gum (Terms 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(etymology 2)) · gum silk (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · wine gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · Barbary gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · bee gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · box-gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · York gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · dammar gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum eraser (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · sweet gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum nut (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · floodgum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gumboot (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum olibanum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum benjamin (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · water gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · cushion gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gumlands (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum acaroidea (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · doctor-gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum-thistle (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum wood (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · slumgum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · white gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · White Gum Valley (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gumdrop (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gumband (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · gum benzoin (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · chicle gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2)) · stinking gum (Terms derived from gum (etymology 2))
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From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma.
Meanings
(sometimes, with-up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint. 2012, Julie Hedgepeth Williams, A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival, →ISBN, page 184:
To stiffen with glue or gum.
He frets like a gummed velvet. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
(sometimes, with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
It consists in gumming together long strips of words [that] have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. 1946, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language:
(colloquial, with-up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.