"gaum" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: The noun is from dialectal (Northern) English, from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum, gaumr (“heed, attention”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”). The verb is from Middle English *gomen, from the noun. Compare native Middle English yemen, from Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|gome}} Middle English gome, {{der|en|non|gaum}} Old Norse gaum, {{m|non|gaumr||heed, attention}} gaumr (“heed, attention”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*gaumō||attention}} Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gʰowe-||to heed, pay attention}} Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”), {{der|en|enm|*gomen}} Middle English *gomen, {{cog|enm|yemen}} Middle English yemen, {{cog|ang|ġīeman||to care for, heed}} Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), {{cog|got|𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽||observe}} Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} gaum (uncountable)
  1. (UK, dialectal, rare) Heed; attention. Tags: UK, dialectal, rare, uncountable Derived forms: gaumish, gaumless, gaum-like
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-noun-BVoxoc-C Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to gaum (“smear”, verb). Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown, {{m|en|gaum||smear|pos=v}} gaum (“smear”, verb) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} gaum (uncountable)
  1. (Appalachia and other dialects, rare) Grime. Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-noun-0pnZOfgM Categories (other): Appalachian English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gaums [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: Unknown. Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown Head templates: {{en-noun}} gaum (plural gaums)
  1. (dialectal, rare) A bit, a small amount. Tags: dialectal, rare
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-noun-fZ0ZP8ww
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Noun

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gaums [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: Probably a variant of gom (an Irish English slang term for a foolish person), but possibly related to or influenced by gorming, gawming (“clumsy, stupid”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|gom}} gom, {{m|en|gorming|gorming, gawming|clumsy, stupid}} gorming, gawming (“clumsy, stupid”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} gaum (plural gaums)
  1. (rare, dialectal or colloquial) A useless person. Tags: colloquial, dialectal, rare
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-noun-Q4MmRtwu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 5

Noun

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gaums [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: Hindi [Term?] Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hi|}} Hindi [Term?] Head templates: {{en-noun}} gaum (plural gaums)
  1. (India, archaic) A village. Tags: India, archaic
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-noun-8gUCZXRd Categories (other): Indian English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 7

Verb

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gaums [present, singular, third-person], gauming [participle, present], gaumed [participle, past], gaumed [past]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: The noun is from dialectal (Northern) English, from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum, gaumr (“heed, attention”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”). The verb is from Middle English *gomen, from the noun. Compare native Middle English yemen, from Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|gome}} Middle English gome, {{der|en|non|gaum}} Old Norse gaum, {{m|non|gaumr||heed, attention}} gaumr (“heed, attention”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*gaumō||attention}} Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gʰowe-||to heed, pay attention}} Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”), {{der|en|enm|*gomen}} Middle English *gomen, {{cog|enm|yemen}} Middle English yemen, {{cog|ang|ġīeman||to care for, heed}} Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), {{cog|got|𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽||observe}} Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} gaum (third-person singular simple present gaums, present participle gauming, simple past and past participle gaumed)
  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To understand; comprehend; consider. Tags: dialectal, obsolete Related terms: gorm (english: gape, gawk), goam (english: see, recognize, take notice of)
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-verb-CBNAK2S7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gaums [present, singular, third-person], gauming [participle, present], gaumed [participle, past], gaumed [past]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant of gum. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain, {{m|en|gum}} gum Head templates: {{en-verb}} gaum (third-person singular simple present gaums, present participle gauming, simple past and past participle gaumed)
  1. (US and UK, dialects, chiefly Midlands, Southern US, Appalachia) To smear. Tags: Appalachia, Midlands, Southern-US, UK, US, dialectal Synonyms: gorm Derived forms: gaumy, begaum
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-verb-n9iGXH6f Categories (other): American English, Appalachian English, British English, Midlands English, Southern US English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ɡɔːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gaums [present, singular, third-person], gauming [participle, present], gaumed [participle, past], gaumed [past]
Rhymes: -ɔːm Etymology: Variant of gorm (“to make a mess of”), which see for more. Etymology templates: {{m|en|gorm||to make a mess of}} gorm (“to make a mess of”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} gaum (third-person singular simple present gaums, present participle gauming, simple past and past participle gaumed)
  1. Alternative form of gorm (to make a mess of). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: gorm (extra: to make a mess of)
    Sense id: en-gaum-en-verb-I3DyywRJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 6

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, Illustrated, page 18",
          "roman": "\"Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop.\"",
          "text": "\"S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!\"",
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          "ref": "1919, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, The Taming of Nan, page 31",
          "text": "\"Good-night, Uncle Nat,\" he called. Uncle Nat walked on in grim silence, never turning his head, for quite half a dozen paces. Then he came back to the gate to which Adam had also returned. \"Tak' no gaum o' my gruntlin', Addy,\" asked Uncle.",
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        {
          "ref": "1972, William Mayne, The Incline, page 141",
          "text": "\"Take no gaum,\" he said. \"I've not heard her. This is between thee and me, Tommy. I'll use but one hand.\"",
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          "ref": "1893, Keighley Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds, page 171",
          "text": "\"We said nowt on 't. Ther' no 'casion to stir up trouble. But we all gaumed 'at when he heerd t' sounds o' them 'at com to lowse us he'd crawled off into t' workin's an' brayed his head agean a shou'der o' quartz.\"",
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          "ref": "1896, James Keighley Snowden, Web of an Old Weaver, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition)",
          "text": "'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said."
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          "ref": "1870, John Christopher Atkinson, Lost, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition)",
          "text": "Aye sir, we gaum ye."
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        "To understand; comprehend; consider."
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        "(dialectal, obsolete) To understand; comprehend; consider."
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        {
          "english": "gape, gawk",
          "word": "gorm"
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          "english": "see, recognize, take notice of",
          "word": "goam"
        }
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        {
          "word": "gaumy"
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          "word": "begaum"
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          "ref": "1894, Rowland Evans Robinson, Danvis Folks, chapter VI, The Paring-Bee, page 117",
          "text": "No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in; […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1908, Mark Twain, “Little Bessie”, in Mark Twain's Fables of Man, published 1972",
          "text": "Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly produces fifty-two billions of descendants in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter exuding from sores, and gaum themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1930, Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, Memoirs of a Poor Relation: Being the Story of a Post-war Southern Girl and Her Battle with Destiny, page 293",
          "text": "Butter became in my eyes a gauge of character and gentility, almost of integrity. I watched these ravenous wretches \"gaum\" their batter-cakes with it, help themselves to more than they really wanted, leaving great golden chunks of it half melted and wholly useless, mixed as it was with gravy […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "1990, Appalachian Journal, volume 18, page 196",
          "text": "Simply gaum them all over with thick claybank mud and throw them into the fire. The clay will bake hard.",
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        "(US and UK, dialects, chiefly Midlands, Southern US, Appalachia) To smear."
      ],
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  "etymology_number": 3,
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Appalachian English",
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        {
          "ref": "1913, William Gerard Chapman, “Wine of the Orchard”, in Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel Fiction, volume 61, page 210",
          "text": "\"douse your head under the pump and wash some of the gaum off your hands and we'll see what your Aunt Debbie can do for that empty feelin'.\"",
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          "ref": "1927, Robert Lindsay Mason, The lure of the Great Smokies, page 150",
          "text": "Said 'Black Bill' Walker, of Walker's Valley, in speaking of the forge: 'I never heerd sech a rackity-rack! Ye'd think the heavens was fallin' down! Them fellers aworkin' thar in the sweat an' gaum reminded me more of the gate to the bad place!'"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Howard Bahr, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War, page 106",
          "text": "They thrust their wedge-shaped faces into the light, then, one by one, tried the air with their delicate paper wings. The air bore them up; they circled lazily over the heads of men, they lit on hands and faces and in the gaum of wounds, they died underfoot.",
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      ],
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        "rare",
        "uncountable"
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      "ipa": "/ɡɔːm/"
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  "etymology_number": 4,
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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "Unknown",
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    {
      "form": "gaums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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          "ref": "1939, Esquire, volume 12, numbers 1-3, page 54",
          "text": "When he had let what he deemed was a sufficiency of blood out of the incised vein, he called to Elvira to bring a spoon of \"sut\" from off the back of the fireplace and a \"gaum\" of spiderwebs from somewhere or other.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Editorials on File, volume 9, number 2, page 1392",
          "text": "The Rockwellian palette was what Arkansans would call a \"gaum\" of sentiment— sentimentality, the cynical would say. His paintings were what these same cynics would probably call \"representational,\" […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Donald Harington, The Cockroaches of Stay More, page 191",
          "text": "\"There aint a gaum of grub to be found nowheres. If rain was syrup, we'd all be gorged, but there aint enough sup to make a housefly floop his snoot.\"",
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        }
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        "(dialectal, rare) A bit, a small amount."
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        "dialectal",
        "rare"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɔːm/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔːm"
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  "etymology_number": 5,
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    {
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      "expansion": "gorming, gawming (“clumsy, stupid”)",
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          "ref": "1946, Liam O'Flaherty, Land",
          "text": "He's a scrawny gaum of a lad named Tony Regan, the tailor's eldest son.",
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        {
          "ref": "1947, James Reynolds, A world of horses: A conversation piece, page 229",
          "text": "I saw standing up out of the grass a murderous length of sharp steel. Some gaum of a farm boy had abandoned this scythe while cutting bundles of sourgrass for cattle-breeding.",
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        {
          "ref": "1956, Sean O'Casey, I knock at the door. Pictures in the hallway. [etc], page 133",
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      "rhymes": "-ɔːm"
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  "etymology_number": 6,
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    {
      "form": "gaums",
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      "form": "gaumed",
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        "past"
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    {
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Charles Ray, The Tarheel Connection: An Environmental Romance, page 93",
          "text": "\"She'll get plum bereft 'n worried, even git the all'overs, if n the place's all gaumed up.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom, page 206",
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        "Alternative form of gorm (to make a mess of)."
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      "ipa": "/ɡɔːm/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔːm"
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  "etymology_number": 7,
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        "3": ""
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      "expansion": "Hindi [Term?]",
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      "form": "gaums",
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        "plural"
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          "source": "w"
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        "A village."
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        "(India, archaic) A village."
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        "India",
        "archaic"
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    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɔːm/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔːm"
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      "expansion": "Middle English gome",
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    {
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    {
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      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "*gomen"
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      "expansion": "Middle English *gomen",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "yemen"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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      "expansion": "Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, Illustrated, page 18",
          "roman": "\"Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop.\"",
          "text": "\"S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, The Taming of Nan, page 31",
          "text": "\"Good-night, Uncle Nat,\" he called. Uncle Nat walked on in grim silence, never turning his head, for quite half a dozen paces. Then he came back to the gate to which Adam had also returned. \"Tak' no gaum o' my gruntlin', Addy,\" asked Uncle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, William Mayne, The Incline, page 141",
          "text": "\"Take no gaum,\" he said. \"I've not heard her. This is between thee and me, Tommy. I'll use but one hand.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Heed; attention."
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          "attention"
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      ],
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        "(UK, dialectal, rare) Heed; attention."
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        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɔːm/"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːm"
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        "Southern-England"
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}

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    }
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  "etymology_text": "The noun is from dialectal (Northern) English, from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum, gaumr (“heed, attention”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”). The verb is from Middle English *gomen, from the noun. Compare native Middle English yemen, from Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”).",
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      "english": "gape, gawk",
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          "ref": "1893, Keighley Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds, page 171",
          "text": "\"We said nowt on 't. Ther' no 'casion to stir up trouble. But we all gaumed 'at when he heerd t' sounds o' them 'at com to lowse us he'd crawled off into t' workin's an' brayed his head agean a shou'der o' quartz.\"",
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          "ref": "1896, James Keighley Snowden, Web of an Old Weaver, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition)",
          "text": "'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said."
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          "ref": "1870, John Christopher Atkinson, Lost, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition)",
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        "To understand; comprehend; consider."
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        "(dialectal, obsolete) To understand; comprehend; consider."
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        "English terms with quotations",
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          "ref": "1894, Rowland Evans Robinson, Danvis Folks, chapter VI, The Paring-Bee, page 117",
          "text": "No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in; […]"
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          "ref": "c. 1908, Mark Twain, “Little Bessie”, in Mark Twain's Fables of Man, published 1972",
          "text": "Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly produces fifty-two billions of descendants in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter exuding from sores, and gaum themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, Memoirs of a Poor Relation: Being the Story of a Post-war Southern Girl and Her Battle with Destiny, page 293",
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          "ref": "1990, Appalachian Journal, volume 18, page 196",
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        "To smear."
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        "(US and UK, dialects, chiefly Midlands, Southern US, Appalachia) To smear."
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          "text": "Said 'Black Bill' Walker, of Walker's Valley, in speaking of the forge: 'I never heerd sech a rackity-rack! Ye'd think the heavens was fallin' down! Them fellers aworkin' thar in the sweat an' gaum reminded me more of the gate to the bad place!'"
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          "ref": "2000, Howard Bahr, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War, page 106",
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        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1939, Esquire, volume 12, numbers 1-3, page 54",
          "text": "When he had let what he deemed was a sufficiency of blood out of the incised vein, he called to Elvira to bring a spoon of \"sut\" from off the back of the fireplace and a \"gaum\" of spiderwebs from somewhere or other.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Editorials on File, volume 9, number 2, page 1392",
          "text": "The Rockwellian palette was what Arkansans would call a \"gaum\" of sentiment— sentimentality, the cynical would say. His paintings were what these same cynics would probably call \"representational,\" […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Donald Harington, The Cockroaches of Stay More, page 191",
          "text": "\"There aint a gaum of grub to be found nowheres. If rain was syrup, we'd all be gorged, but there aint enough sup to make a housefly floop his snoot.\"",
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        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1946, Liam O'Flaherty, Land",
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          "ref": "1947, James Reynolds, A world of horses: A conversation piece, page 229",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Charles Ray, The Tarheel Connection: An Environmental Romance, page 93",
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        "A village."
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        "(India, archaic) A village."
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