Noun

(en noun)

(rfv-sense) (now, chiefly, dialectal) A man.

*1515 , the Scottish Field:

The king was glade of that golde, that the gome brought, And promised him full pertly, his part for to take, [...]

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* {{quote-book

, year=2008 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Barry J. Blake , title=All About Language: A Guide , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Oxford University Press , isbn=9780191622830 , page= , passage=Similarly bridegroom'' was originally ''bridegoom'', where ''goom'' meant 'man'.'' … It was changed to ''groom'', though a ''bridegroom does not normally groom the bride. }}

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(rfv-sense) (obsolete) lord; Lord; God.

Noun

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(rfv-sense) Heed; attention; notice; care.

Noun

(en noun)

* 1738 November 24, Richard Kay, Diary'':

November 24. This Day I've spent some Time in my Closet, have been but ill to Day of Tumour in my Goom which is this Afternoon burst.

* 1833 , Asa Greene, The Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth , volume 2, page 5:

"I'm cutting the goom ," replied the student.

"You've got the wrong tooth," roared the man.

* 1898 , The Outlook , page 69:

Oh, just put a little hunk on the ‘ goom ’ over the tooth. I s'pose it kind o' stim-a-lates it."

* 1907 , William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases :

Soon in the goom [gum], quick in the womb.

* 1949 , Cleone N. Collins, in an article published in Tic , the journal of the Ticonium Company:

"And Doc will you take a look at my ‘goom ’? I want my plates tight, so they won't drop or bob. Say Doc, will I be able to eat corn on the cob?"

* 1973 , Northwest dentistry , volume 52, page 94:

Why didn't you just pull it? My goom still has a sore where you put that needle.

(rfv-sense) Blunted teeth on a saw.

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, year=1823 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Edward Moor , title=Suffolk Words and Phrases , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=J. Loder for R. Hunter , isbn= , page=522 , passage=The portion so blunted is called the goom'''''. When the teeth are so worn down by use , as to be almost as low as those broken off, the saw requires '''''gooming . }}

* 1984 , The Huntington Library quarterly , volume 47, page 144:

Goom. In a blacksmith's bill just brought to me is this item. "A saw goom'd—6d." On enquiry he said that "the goom'' had ''riz'', and ta wanted ''goomin ."