Meanings
coom1
coom2
present singular third person cooms · participle present cooming · past came
- 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
plural cooms
- ScotlandThe wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
- ScotlandAnything arched or vaulted.
coom4
- humorousslangsometimesuncountableSemen.
present singular third person cooms · participle present cooming · participle past came · past came · participle past coomed · past coomed
- humorousslangsometimesTo ejaculate.
Origin
coom · noun
- Old Englishcol“coal”
- Middle Englishculme
- 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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- Scotscoom
- Englishcoom
From Scots coom, of unknown origin.
More words from Scots
Full word history & related roots →coom · noun, verb
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷem-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷémt
- Proto-Germanic*kwemaną
- Proto-West Germanic*kweman
- Old Englishcuman
- Middle Englishcomen
- Englishcome
- Englishcum
- Englishcoom
An alteration of cum. See also coomer.
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Cite this entry
coom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coom
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