"smokum" meaning in English

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Verb

Etymology: smoke + -um Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|smoke|um}} smoke + -um Head templates: {{head|en|verb}} smokum
  1. (dated, humorous, now offensive) To smoke. Tags: dated, humorous, offensive
    Sense id: en-smokum-en-verb-arNP8woE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -um

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          "ref": "1896, F J Stimsom, King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, page 254",
          "text": "\"Givum dinner; smokum pipe,\" was all that we could get out of Quatchett.",
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          "ref": "1968, Joan Baez, Daybreak, page 17",
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          "ref": "2003, Stephen Brown, John F Sherry, editors, Time, Space and the Market: Retroscapes Rising, page 127",
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          "ref": "2004, Henry Bailey Stevens, Johnny Appleseed And Paul Bunyan: A Play of American Folklore in Three Acts with Prologue, page 47",
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