coom

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noun

soot, smut

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Meanings

coom1

nouncoom (uncountable)
  1. uncountablesoot, smut
  2. uncountabledust
  3. uncountablegrease

coom2

verbcoom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past came, past participle coom)

present singular third person cooms · participle present cooming · past came

  1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of come.
    1 more example

    “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.”

    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

coom3

nouncoom (plural cooms)

plural cooms

  1. ScotlandThe wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
  2. ScotlandAnything arched or vaulted.

coom4

nouncoom (uncountable)
  1. humorousslangsometimesuncountableSemen.
verbcoom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past and past participle came or coomed)

present singular third person cooms · participle present cooming · participle past came · past came · participle past coomed · past coomed

  1. humorousslangsometimesTo ejaculate.

Origin

coom · noun

  1. Old Englishcol“coal”
  2. Middle Englishculme
  3. Englishcoom

From Middle English culme, colme, of unknown origin but probably from or related to Old English col (“coal”). Related to culm and Icelandic kámugur.

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coom · noun

  1. Scotscoom
  2. Englishcoom

From Scots coom, of unknown origin.

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coom · noun, verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gʷémt
  3. Proto-Germanic*kwemaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*kweman
  5. Old Englishcuman
  6. Middle Englishcomen
  7. Englishcome
  8. Englishcum
  9. Englishcoom

An alteration of cum. See also coomer.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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