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Toom vs Coom - What's the difference?

toom | coom |

As nouns the difference between toom and coom

is that toom is a piece of waste ground where rubbish is shot while coom is soot, smut.

As verbs the difference between toom and coom

is that toom is to empty; teem while coom is eye dialect of lang=en.

As an adjective toom

is empty.

toom

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) toom, tom, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Empty.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly Scottish) A piece of waste ground where rubbish is shot.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare, or, dialectal) To empty; teem.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) toom, tome, tom, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Vacant time, leisure.
    • ----

    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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