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gom

See also: gôm, gồm, and göm

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).

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Noun

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gom (plural goms)

  1. (Ireland) A foolish person.
    • 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack, Dublin: M.H. Gill, page 139:
      “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”
    • 1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, act II, page 137:
      Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.
    • 2007, John Maher, The Luck Penny, page 145:
      And that's the why I made up my mind to go out to Willie Hill's. To stand my ground in front of that little minx. Because I felt, to tell the God's truth, that little Lorna Lovegrove, out in Willie Hill's, was making a right gom out of me.
    • 2013, Outrageous Pride, →ISBN:
      He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]
    • 2014, Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy, →ISBN:
      "Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"

Etymology 2

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Variant of gum.

Noun

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gom (plural goms)

  1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of gum
    • 1911, “Why moles have hands”, in Marshall Pinckney Wilder, editor, The Wit and Humor of America, page 206:
      ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.

Etymology 3

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Minced oath.

Interjection

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gom

  1. (obsolete, euphemistic) God!
    • 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:
      There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself,
    • 1829, “The Humours of Vauxhall”, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, volume 2, page 164:
      O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!
    • 1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36:
      "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."
    • 1908, Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, page 224:
      Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom, no. It wasn't hereabouts."

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

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Noun

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gom (uncountable)

  1. Gum, a viscous or sticky substance exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *culumus.

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Noun

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gom

  1. Only used in de gom a gom

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɣɔm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: gom
  • Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

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gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)

  1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically
  2. an object made from gum
  3. (now Belgium) Alternative form of gum (“eraser”)
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: gom
  • → Indonesian: gom
  • → Japanese: ゴム
  • → Papiamentu: gòm, gom

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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gom

  1. inflection of gommen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch gom (“gum”), from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

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gom (plural gom-gom, first-person possessive gomku, second-person possessive gommu, third-person possessive gomnya)

  1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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gom

  1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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gom

  1. Alternative form of gome (“regard”)

Etymology 3

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Noun

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gom

  1. Alternative form of gumme

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Armenian գոմ (gom).

Noun

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gom f

  1. sty, fold, pen; sheepfold

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գոմ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 575a
  • Asatrjan, G. (1986) “О ранних арменизмах в курдском [On Early Armenian Loan-Words in Kurdish]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎[1] (in Russian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 171–172
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “gom”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume I, London: Transnational Press, page 275ab
  • Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 371a

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse gómr, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô

Noun

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gom m (definite singular gommen, indefinite plural gommar, definite plural gommane)

  1. palate
    Synonym: gane
  2. gum (flesh around the roots of teeth)
    Synonym: tannkjøt(t)

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Rohingya

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Verb

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gom

  1. good

Swedish

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Noun

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gom c

  1. a palate (roof of the mouth)

Declension

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Declension of gom
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gom goms
definite gommen gommens
plural indefinite gommar gommars
definite gommarna gommarnas

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kom ~ *koom (“to grow, to increase”); cognate with Bahnar akŏm/akŭm (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ကောံ (kɒm, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ចង្កោម (cɑngkaom, “bunch”).

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Verb

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gom • (搛, 𡗄)

  1. to gather together

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Derived terms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).

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Noun

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gom

  1. fool, idiot
    Synonyms: stouck, clouk, pomeale, dhonal

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42
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