vroom

See also: Vroom

English

Etymology

Imitative

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vɹuːm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vɹum/, /vɹʊm/
• Rhymes: -uːm, -ʊm

Interjection

vroom

1. (often reduplicated) The sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.

   vroom vroom vroom

   I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.

Alternative forms

• broom, brrm, brrrm

Translations

the sound of a sports car’s engine

• Armenian: ղմ-ղմ (ġm-ġm)
• Dutch: vroem (nl)
• French: vroum (fr)
• German: wrumm
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ærn-ærn

• Polish: brum (pl)
• Russian: вжум m (vžum), вж-вж (vž-vž)
• Swedish: brum (sv)
• Thai: บรื้น (brʉ̂ʉn)

Noun

vroom (countable and uncountable, plural vrooms)

1. The sound of an engine revving up.
   • 2003, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 2, page 52:

     Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.

Translations

the sound of an engine

• Polish: warkot (pl) m

Verb

vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)

1. (informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

Translations

To move with great speed

• Polish: zasuwać (pl)

See also

• putt putt

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vrōme (“firm, upright”), an adjective derived from the noun vrōme (“benefit, use”), from Old Dutch *fruma, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vroːm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: vroom
• Rhymes: -oːm

Adjective

vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)

1. pious, devout

   Synonym: godvruchtig

Declension

Declension of vroom
uninflected	vroom
inflected	vrome
comparative	vromer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		vroom	vromer	het vroomst het vroomste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	vrome	vromere	vroomste
	n. sing.	vroom	vromer	vroomste
	plural	vrome	vromere	vroomste
definite		vrome	vromere	vroomste
partitive		vrooms	vromers	—

Derived terms

• vroomheid
• vroompjes

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vroom
• Negerhollands: vroom, vrom