Corm vs Coom - What's the difference?
corm | coom |
A short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.
soot, smut
dust
grease
* 1838–1839 , , Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII,
As nouns the difference between corm and coom
is that corm is a short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought while coom is soot, smut.As a verb coom is
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Noun
(wikipedia corm) (en noun)Derived terms
* cormel * cormletcoom
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Etymology 1
Noun
(-)Etymology 2
See (come).Verb
(en verb)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 .”