coom

English

Etymology 1

Related to Icelandic kámugur.

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Noun

coom (uncountable)

Derived terms

becoomed

Etymology 2

See come.

Verb

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

Noun

coom (plural cooms)

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

Derived terms

coom-ceiled

Etymology 4

An alteration of cum. See also coomer.

Noun

coom (uncountable)

(slang, sometimes humorous) semen

Verb

coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past and past participle came or coomed)

(slang, sometimes humorous) to ejaculate

Anagrams

COMO, Como, MOOC, MoCo, moco