begaum

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verb

To smear (with something sticky or messy).

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Meanings

verbbegaum (third-person singular simple present begaums, present participle begauming, simple past and past participle begaumed)

present singular third person begaums · participle present begauming · participle past begaumed · past begaumed

  1. UKUSdialectalpastrareTo smear (with something sticky or messy).

    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; […]

    1926 January 2, Kennett Harris, “Onward and Upward Led”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 198, number 27, page 6
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    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.

    1963, Dorothy B. Hughes, “The Granny Woman”, in Gamma, volume 1, number 2, page 5

Origin

From be- + gaum.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

begaum. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begaum

MLA

“begaum.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begaum. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “begaum,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begaum.

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