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gaum

[ gawm, gahm ]

verb (used with object)

Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up ):

    My clothes were gaumed up from that axle grease.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of gaum1

1790–1800; also British dial.; of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences

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In August 2017, at the height of animosities with the then-Trump administration, North Korea’s Strategic Forces threatened to make “an enveloping fire” near Gaum with Hwasong-12 missiles.

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Tina Cordova, a cancer survivor and co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, said she has been working on the legislation for months with other residents of places affected by radiation, from Indigenous communities in New Mexico to Gaum.

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At the sideboard, before the taboo on conversation applied, Obsle remarked to me while loading up his plate with batter-fried sube-eggs, “The fellow named Mersen is a spy from Erhenrang, and Gaum there is an open agent of the Sarf, you know.”

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There was a pause, and a buzz, and then the handsome man called Gaum laughed and lifted up his beer-tankard.

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Gaum spoke: “Where is your ship, Mr. Ai?”

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