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Oom vs Coom - What's the difference?

oom | coom |

As nouns the difference between oom and coom

is that oom is an older man, especially an uncle. (Frequently as a respectful form of address. while coom is soot, smut.

As a verb coom is

eye dialect of lang=en.

oom

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (South Africa) An older man, especially an uncle. (Frequently as a respectful form of address.)
  • *1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 73:
  • *:He raised his glass. ‘Here's to you, Oom Ben,’ he said. ‘Give them hell.’
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    coom

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • soot, smut
  • dust
  • grease

    • Etymology 2

    See (come).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1838–1839 , , Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII, 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 .”

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