begaum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]begaum (third-person singular simple present begaums, present participle begauming, simple past and past participle begaumed)
- (rare, US and UK, dialects, chiefly in the past tense) To smear (with something sticky or messy).
- 1926 January 2, Kennett Harris, “Onward and Upward Led”, in The Saturday Evening Post[1], volume 198, number 27, page 6:
- 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; […]
- 1963, Dorothy B. Hughes, “The Granny Woman”, in Gamma, volume 1, number 2, page 5:
- 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.