"wantum" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "Eye dialect for want 'em.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "wantum",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, page 82",
          "text": "Then he have wongie along Sargint in office feller. White blackfeller wantum know 'bout old Sarah, an' Sargint he tellum she goodoh.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Thomas Burke, More Limehouse Nights, page 126",
          "text": "Oh, ah — er — me wantum Chinkie just come in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Richard M. Dixon, Choosing Sides, page 166",
          "text": "You wantum eat? You wantum sleep? If you wantum eat you wakum up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To want."
      ],
      "id": "en-wantum-en-verb-CVriWWbX",
      "links": [
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "imitating broken English",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(imitating broken English) To want."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wantum"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "want",
        "3": "quantum"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of want + quantum",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Q37327",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "coined by Nobel-winning Irish writer Samuel Beckett",
      "name": "coinage"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of want + quantum, coined by Nobel-winning Irish writer Samuel Beckett.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wantums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wantum (plural wantums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy",
          "text": "Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Harold N. Boris, Passions of the Mind: Unheard Melodies",
          "text": "A projection of “Wantum” requires, in the Couple, a reciprocal agreement on the part of the other to allow more than his own portion of Wantum to be discovered in him or herself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clément, After Beckett, page 249",
          "text": "To use Wylie's phraseology: the quantum of this particular discursive wantum cannot vary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford SF Gateway Omnibus: Artifact, Cosm, Eater",
          "text": "The desire to find something could provoke what she called 'wantum mechanics,' fishing a result out of nothing but noise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A quantifiable deficiency or desire"
      ],
      "id": "en-wantum-en-noun-YGYSH3Uc"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wantum"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English blends",
    "English coinages",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms coined by Samuel Beckett",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "Eye dialect for want 'em.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "wantum",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, page 82",
          "text": "Then he have wongie along Sargint in office feller. White blackfeller wantum know 'bout old Sarah, an' Sargint he tellum she goodoh.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Thomas Burke, More Limehouse Nights, page 126",
          "text": "Oh, ah — er — me wantum Chinkie just come in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Richard M. Dixon, Choosing Sides, page 166",
          "text": "You wantum eat? You wantum sleep? If you wantum eat you wakum up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To want."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "imitating broken English",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(imitating broken English) To want."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wantum"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English blends",
    "English coinages",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms coined by Samuel Beckett"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "want",
        "3": "quantum"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of want + quantum",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Q37327",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "coined by Nobel-winning Irish writer Samuel Beckett",
      "name": "coinage"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of want + quantum, coined by Nobel-winning Irish writer Samuel Beckett.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wantums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wantum (plural wantums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy",
          "text": "Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Harold N. Boris, Passions of the Mind: Unheard Melodies",
          "text": "A projection of “Wantum” requires, in the Couple, a reciprocal agreement on the part of the other to allow more than his own portion of Wantum to be discovered in him or herself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clément, After Beckett, page 249",
          "text": "To use Wylie's phraseology: the quantum of this particular discursive wantum cannot vary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford SF Gateway Omnibus: Artifact, Cosm, Eater",
          "text": "The desire to find something could provoke what she called 'wantum mechanics,' fishing a result out of nothing but noise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A quantifiable deficiency or desire"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wantum"
}