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Lum vs Dum - What's the difference?

lum | dum |

As a noun lum

is (scotland|northern england) a chimney.

As an adjective dum is

cooked with steam.

As an interjection dum is

.

lum

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A chimney.
    • (Robert Burns)
  • * 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 277:
    • they cleared the Manse and went up by the Mains, with the smell of the dung from its hot cattle-court, and the smell of the burning wood in its lums .
  • (Scotland, northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A woody valley.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A deep pool.

    • Anagrams

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    dum

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • cooked with steam

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • * 2012 , Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Who is the Doctor
    • I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who''. ''Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.
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