ghoom
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See also: Ghoom
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hindi घूमना (ghūmnā, “to wander, turn”).[1]
Verb
[edit]ghoom (third-person singular simple present ghooms, present participle ghooming, simple past and past participle ghoomed)
- (India, dated, intransitive) To hunt for animals by stealth in an area where they are likely to be found on the move.
- 1905, Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd, Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle, page 86:
- Once more we ghoomed. Turning northward this time, it was the eastern portion of the plateau that we faced, rather rougher country than on the side we had lately traversed, […]
- 1953, Olive Smythies, Tiger Lady: Adventures in the Indian Jungle, page 222:
- On off days we went ghooming in the forests and savannahs swarming with game, and picked up various sorts of deer and another leopard.
Noun
[edit]ghoom (plural ghooms)
- (India, dated) A hunt of this kind.
- 1928, The Hoghunters' Annual, page 67:
- A ghoom, too, is often an excellent time for a spear to take on and hunt a pig alone.