toom

American  

[toom] / tum /

adjective

1. empty; vacant.

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verb (used with object)

1. to empty or drain (a vessel), especially by drinking the contents.

Etymology

Origin of toom

before 900; Middle English tome (adj.), Old English tōm; cognate with Old Norse tōmr

Example Sentences

“Then that be just where the lie comes in. Why, there be scores of these lay-beds that be toom as old Dun’s ’bacca-box on Friday night.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

For they had had the garrison long enough with them to learn that all soldiers are great trenchermen, and can right nobly "claw a bicker" and "toom a stoup" with any man.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

There is an O. E. tōm from which the Sco. adj. toom probably comes.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

When the burn doesna babble, it's either ower toom or ower fu'.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Much superior to the next, which bears in its bosom the hollow and unwelcome ring of a "toom girnal"—a sound no child should ever know.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert