different between besom vs besomlike

English

Etymology

From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besm? (“broom”).

Cognate with Scots besom, bisom, West Frisian biezem, Dutch bezem, Limburgish bessem, Low German bessen, German Besen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?.z?m/

Noun

besom (plural besoms)

1. A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 56]:

     As a kid I went to the Russian Bath with my own father. … Down in the cellar men moaned on the steam-softened planks while they were massaged abrasively with oak-leaf besoms lathered in pickle buckets.

2. (Scotland, Northern England, derogatory) A troublesome woman.
3. Any cleansing or purifying agent.

Derived terms

• besom pocket

Translations

See also

• besom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

besom (third-person singular simple present besoms, present participle besoming, simple past and past participle besomed)

1. (archaic, poetic) To sweep.
   • 1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, page 13,

     Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Prichard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linolium, retired, and Mr Prichard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming, swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant...

Anagrams

• mebos, mobes

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

besom (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. instrumental singular of bes

Noun

besom (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. instrumental singular of besa

English

Etymology

besom +? -like

Adjective

besomlike (comparative more besomlike, superlative most besomlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a besom.