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gaum
[ gawm, gahm ]
/ gɔm, gɑm /
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verb (used with object) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up): My clothes were gaumed up from that axle grease.
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Also gorm [gawrm] /gɔrm/ .
Origin of gaum
1790–1800; also British dial.; of uncertain origin
Words nearby gaum
Gaullism, Gaullist, gault, gaultheria, Gaultier, gaum, gaumless, gaun, gaunt, gauntlet, gauntlet bandage
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How to use gaum in a sentence
Near my village, which is Gaum, one lived in the hills so close that he was called the 'Dweller at the Hearth.'
The Three Sapphires|W. A. FraserAs to the ways of a bhut not even the priest at my village of Gaum could say aught.
The Three Sapphires|W. A. Fraser