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Coom vs Cloom - What's the difference?

coom | cloom |

As verbs the difference between coom and cloom

is that coom is while cloom is (obsolete) to close with glutinous matter.

As a noun coom

is soot, smut.

coom

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(-)
  • soot, smut
  • dust
  • grease

    • Etymology 2

    See (come).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1838–1839 , , Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII, page 411:
    • “Not a bit,” replied the Yorkshireman, extending his mouth from ear to ear. “There I lay, snoog in schoolmeasther’s bed long efther it was dark, and nobody coom' nigh the pleace. ‘Weel!’ thinks I, ‘he’s got a pretty good start, and if he bean’t whoam by noo, he never will be; so you may '''coom''' as quick as you loike, and foind us reddy’—that is, you know, schoolmeasther might ' coom .”

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    cloom

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To close with glutinous matter.
    • (Mortimer)
    (Murray Hoyt)
    (Webster 1913)