gaumv.1
/ɡɔːm/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive. To handle, esp. in some improper fashion.
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1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 230 Each Lad took his Lass by the fist, And when he had squeez'd her, and gaum'd her untill The fat of her face ran down like a mill He [etc.].
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 22 Goam, to Grasp or clasp.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gaum, see Paume [= to palm (a die, etc.)].
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. in Wks. VI. 331 Don't be mauming and gauming a Body so. Can't you keep your filthy Hands to your self?
1886 Chester Gloss. Gawm., to grasp in the hand.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Gaum, to handle articles in a manner calculated to damage or mar their appearance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gaumv.2
/ɡɔːm/ transitive. To smear with a sticky substance; to daub (something sticky) on a surface. Also with up.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > smear
smear971
besmearc1050
slobber1529
slubber1530
smore1530
to-ray1562
slubbera1586
blur1592
beblur1598
beslubber1598
besmother1598
besmouche1600
slur1602
illine1615
slerga1758
slaister1773
gaum?1825
smarm1847
slob1851
maum1888
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance
smear971
dechea1000
cleamc1000
besmearc1050
clamc1380
glue1382
pargeta1398
overslame?1440
plaster?1440
beslab1481
strike1525
bestrike1527
streak1540
bedaub1558
spread1574
daub1598
paste1609
beplaster1611
circumlite1657
oblite1657
fata1661
gaum?1825
treacle1839
butter1882
slap1902
slather1941
nap1961
?1825 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) II. 457 Hope it won't clog his wings—gaum we used to say at school.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xx. 205 Those degraded savages..mix the..grease and ashes..with tar, and ‘gaum’ it thick all over their heads.
1883 Athenæum No. 2885. 192 The greater part of the interior was gaumed with shellac in solution.
1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms 102 Gawm'd, smeared.
1962 Listener 1 Nov. 732/3 I have always hoped against hope that one day Mr. Bucknell would..get gormed up in a glue-pot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
gaumv.3
/ɡɔːm/ dialect.
intransitive. To stare vacantly.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze
stareOE
gawc1175
darea1225
porec1300
muse1340
glowc1374
gogglec1380
gazec1386
glore?a1400
glopc1400
govec1480
glower?a1513
gowk1513
daze1523
amuse1532
glew1587
to feed one's eyes1590
to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598
to shoot one's eyes1602
glazea1616
stargaze1639
gaum1691
to stare like a stuck pig1702
ygaze1737
gawk1785
to feed one's sight1813
gloze1853
glow1856
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 32 We pronounce it Gaum, and Gauve, and speak it of persons that unhandsomely gaze or look about them.
1839 Cumbld. & Westmld. Dial. 72 A body knaas better haw tae carry thersel when they er amang gentlefowk: yan leaks nit quite sae gawmin.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Gawm, to stare vacantly.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Gawmin, foolish, awkward, rash.
1928 E. W. Hendy Lure of Bird Watching xi. 196 The youngsters sat gorming on its edge, while she stuffed gobbets of bread..into their insatiable maws.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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