toom

[toom]

adjective

1. empty; vacant.

verb (used with object)

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of toom¹

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.”

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That was a sweet reward for the months, perhaps years, of what Toom describes as feeling like a “squirrel running in a wheel.”

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“During that time, I had already graduated from two film schools. I’d gone to the army. I was more mature and had some kind of life experience when I finally read it,” Toom says.

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It took Toom, an Oscar nominee in 2011 for his live-action short, “The Confession,” a full year to figure out how to map out the structure of the novel in screenplay form.

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It was quite a difficult process because, as Toom describes it, the narrative is very episodic and doesn’t have a clear focus: “There are chapters that go off completely from the main stories.”

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