toom
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Gin she was toom afore, she's toomer now, Her heart was like to loup out at her mou'."
- "Then hie to the Custom House, add to your pleasures, Now you're well cover'd, so toom the new measures: It ne'er will be finish'd, I'll wager a groat, Till they've cut a canal te admit five-men boats!"
- "She set down the bowl and breathed over it, "Be never toom." The woman lived to a great age, but never saw the bottom of the bowl."
- "Every time Gavin's cup went to his lips Nanny calculated (correctly) how much he had drunk, and yet, when the right moment arrived, she asked in the English voice that is fashionable at ceremonies, "if his cup was toom.""
- ""You saw it was toom. The lamp had gone out itself, or else — what's that?""
- "It seemed to him that his soul had gone from him, and he was as toom as a hazel shell."
Etymology
From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more toom (comparative)
most toom (superlative)
tooms (plural)
tooms (present, singular)
tooming (participle, present)
toomed (participle, past)
toomed (past)
Derived Forms
toomly