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goom | loom |

As nouns the difference between goom and loom

is that goom is (now|chiefly|dialectal) a man or goom can be heed; attention; notice; care or goom can be or goom can be alcohol methylated spirits while loom is a utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general or loom can be (dated) loon (bird of order gaviformes ).

As a verb loom is

to impend; to threaten or hang over.

goom

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) goom, gome, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* gome, gom

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, [...]
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=1860 , month=May , first= , last= , author=various , coauthors= , title=Reviews and Literary Notices , volume=5 , issue=31 , page= , magazine=Atlantic Monthly , publisher=Project Gutenberg , issn= citation , passage=… at it would be quite as inconvenient to explain that the termination _goom _ was a derivation from the Anglo-Saxon _guma_ as that it was a corruption of it; … }}
  • * {{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. }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2011-05-08 , year= , first= , last= , author=Jan Freeman , authorlink= , title=Here comes the goom , site=Boston Globle citation , archiveorg= , accessdate= , passage=Groom'' for ''bridegroom'' has been called inelegant, but it’s surely an improvement on ''goom . }}
  • (rfv-sense) (obsolete) lord; Lord; God.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gome, gome, from (etyl) gaumr, . More at (l).

    Noun

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

    • Etymology 3

    A dialectal variant of (m).

    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.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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 ."

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (-)
  • Alcohol methylated spirits.
  • * 1988 , Ruby Langford, ?Susan Hampton, Don't Take Your Love to Town , page 106:
    • I rushed to see what was wrong and I could smell metho on his breath. 'Robbie, who gave you the goom ?'
  • * 1993 , Mudrooroo, The aboriginal protestors confront the declaration of the Australian Republic'', in ''The Mudrooroo/Müller Project: A Theatrical Casebook (ISBN 0868402370), page 107
    • THE BUREAUCRAT I didn't touch him; I didn't touch him. The goom's got him.
    BOB He doesn't drink, mate. His system's not up to it.
  • * 2000 , Herb Wharton, Unbranded (ISBN 0702244678)
    • "No, don't bother, it's only a bottle of goom ."
  • * 2007 , James Maxey, Bitterwood (ISBN 184416487X), page 181:
    • He popped the cork to unleash the powerful, musk- sharp stench of goom', a powerful alcohol distilled from wild swamp cabbage and seasoned with cayenne. The ' goom spilled all over his torso. The burning sensation wasn't unpleasant.
  • * 2009 , Chloe Hooper, Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee (ISBN 1416594590), page 200:
    • Zillman: "And he also had some goom , didn't he?"
    Kidner: "Yeah, methylated spirits."

    References

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    loom

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lome, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
  • A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
  • * Rambler
    • Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.
  • That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock
    • Derived terms
    * hand loom * power loom

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviformes )

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to impend; to threaten or hang over.
    • The clouds loomed over the mountains.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=August 7 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Man City 2 - 3 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With no extra-time to be played and penalties looming , the Portuguese winger pounced on some hesitant City defending to run on to a Wayne Rooney clearance, round Joe Hart and slot home.}}
  • To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
  • * J. M. Mason
    • On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context.

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