coom
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Noun edit
coom (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See come.
Verb edit
coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past came, past participle coom)
- Pronunciation spelling of come.
- 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:
- “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.”
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
coom (plural cooms)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 4 edit
See coomer.
Verb edit
coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past and past participle came or coomed)