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Soot vs Coom - What's the difference?

soot | coom |

As nouns the difference between soot and coom

is that soot is fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc while coom is soot, smut.

As verbs the difference between soot and coom

is that soot is to cover or dress with soot while coom is .

soot

English

(wikipedia soot)

Noun

(-)
  • Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

    • Synonyms

    * lampblack

    See also

    * carbon black

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or dress with soot.
    • to soot land
    (Mortimer)

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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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