Grease vs Coom - What's the difference?
grease | coom |
Animal fat in a melted or soft state
(extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
(informal) To bribe.
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, 2008, title=With Lyon in Missouri, author=Byron Archibald Dunn
, passage=Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.}}
* {{quote-book, 2009, title=GOG - an End Time Mystery, author=Dan Richardson
, passage=His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.}}
(transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
(slang) To kill, murder.
(obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
soot, smut
dust
grease
* 1838–1839 , , Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII,
As nouns the difference between grease and coom
is that grease is animal fat in a melted or soft state while coom is soot, smut.As verbs the difference between grease and coom
is that grease is to put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate while coom is .grease
English
(wikipedia grease)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (animal fat) fat, lardDerived terms
* dirty grease * elbow grease * grease-box * grease bush * grease gun / grease-gun * grease-monkey * grease moth * grease nipple * greasepaint / grease-paint * grease payment * greaseproof * greasewood * greasiness * greasy * the squeaky wheel gets the grease * greaseballVerb
(greas)- the greased advocate that grinds the poor
- ''To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
- Fat cats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Synonyms
* (put grease or fat on) lard * (slang for kill or murder) bump off, hit, whackDerived terms
* greaser * grease the hand * grease the wheels * grease someone's palmAnagrams
* * *coom
English
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 .”