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Gaum

/ɡɔːm/ · noun

Meaning

(UK, dialectal, rare) Heed; attention..

Definitions by Sense

  1. (UK, dialectal, rare) Heed; attention.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) To understand; comprehend; consider.
  3. (US and UK, dialects, chiefly Midlands, Southern US, Appalachia) To smear.
  4. (Appalachia and other dialects, rare) Grime.
  5. (dialectal, rare) A bit, a small amount.
  6. (rare, dialectal or colloquial) A useless person.
  7. Alternative form of gorm (to make a mess of).
  8. (India, archaic) A village.

Example Sentences

"S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!" "Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop."
"Good-night, Uncle Nat," he called. Uncle Nat walked on in grim silence, never turning his head, for quite half a dozen paces. Then he came back to the gate to which Adam had also returned. "Tak' no gaum o' my gruntlin', Addy," asked Uncle.
"Take no gaum," he said. "I've not heard her. This is between thee and me, Tommy. I'll use but one hand."
'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said.
Aye sir, we gaum ye.
"We said nowt on 't. Ther' no 'casion to stir up trouble. But we all gaumed 'at when he heerd t' sounds o' them 'at com to lowse us he'd crawled off into t' workin's an' brayed his head agean a shou'der o' quartz."
No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in; […]
Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly produces fifty-two billions of descendants in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter exuding from sores, and gaum themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter […]

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What does gaum mean?

Gaum means (UK, dialectal, rare) Heed; attention..

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What is the opposite of gaum?

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How do you use gaum in a sentence?

"S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!" "Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop."

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