Coom
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 soot, smut uncountable
- 2 The wooden centering on which a bridge is built. Scotland
- 3 Semen. humorous, slang, sometimes, uncountable
- 4 dust uncountable
- 5 Anything arched or vaulted. Scotland
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- 6 grease uncountable
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of come. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"“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.”"
- 2 To ejaculate. humorous, slang, sometimes
Example
More examples"“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.”"
Etymology
Related to Icelandic kámugur.
See come.
An alteration of cum. See also coomer.
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