Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.29 in modern English

Syllables: coom
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Uncountable

noun

Uncountable

noun

Uncountable

verb

Pronunciation spelling of come.

noun

The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.

noun

Anything arched or vaulted.

noun

Humorous; Slang; Uncountable

verb

Humorous; Slang

Example Sentences

"“Not a bit,” replied the Yorkshireman, extending his mouth from ear to ear. “There I lay, snoog in schoolmeasther’s bed long efther it was dark, and nobody coom nigh the pleace. ‘Weel!’ thinks I, ‘he’s got a pretty good start, and if he bean’t whoam by noo, he never will be; so you may coom as quick as you loike, and foind us reddy’—that is, you know, schoolmeasther might coom.”"

Etymology

From Middle English culme, colme, of unknown origin but probably from or related to Old English col (“coal”). Related to culm and Icelandic kámugur.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: culme, col, coom

Usage

Inflected Forms

cooms (present, singular) cooming (participle, present) came (past) cooms (plural) came (participle, past) coomed (participle, past) coomed (past)

Derived Forms

becoomed

Phrases

coom-ceiled

Questions

What does coom mean?: soot, smut
Where does coom come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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