vum
Americanverb (used without object)
interjection
Example Sentences
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O, mon dieu! le rashcalle hash bitez mon vum almos' off!
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
If I could git some one to go with me, I’d tackle the job, but I vum if every time I perpose it to anyone they don’t make some excuse.”
From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates
Not a word of truth in ’em, I vum!
From The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize by Gertrude W. Morrison
I wish you had rowed them out of this house, I vum I do.
From Three People by Pansy
Well, I vum," he exclaimed, "if it ain't them three pesky scallawags back safe and sound!
From The Voyage of the Rattletrap by H. M. Wilder
He said, "by the great Peterkin!" and then he swowed, and vowed, and snummed, and vummed, and dummed, and finally said he was glad of it, and had always known you were a Tracy.
From Tracy Park by Mary Jane Holmes
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