different between goam vs goom

English

Etymology

Variant of gorm/gaum, which see for more.

Verb

goam (third-person singular simple present goams, present participle goaming, simple past and past participle goamed)

1. (rare) To see, to recognize, to take notice of.
   • 1866, The United Presbyterian magazine, page 359:

     One of Mr Scott's elders, who came from the west, used to meet Mrs Scott on her way to Jedburgh, when he never goamed her; but when he met her returning in the afternoon he always lifted his hat, and made obeisance.

   • 1884, Charles Stuart, David Blythe: The Gipsy King : a Character Sketch, page 131:

     He never goamed the lassie afterwards, and, in his despair, he began to drink, and drank heavily. He knew his rival by sight, and, knowing the road he would take to reach his home, Scott waylaid and beat him to death on Greenlaw Muir.

   • 1897, Peter Hay Hunter, John Armiger's Revenge, page 21:

     "He never goam'd me," the aggrieved countryman would say with much bitterness.

Related terms

• gorm (“gape, gawk”)
• gaum (“understand; comprehend; consider”)

Anagrams

• AMOG, GOMA, Goma, gamo-, ogam

Scots

Etymology

From the same Middle English word as gaum and gorm (and goam), which see for more.

Verb

goam (third-person singular present goams, present participle goamin, past goamt, past participle goamt)

1. To see; to pay attention to.
   • 1836, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:

     The puir creature paid the most marked attention to the young man, scarcely goaming me; but, for a' that, I could see plainly aneugh that she preferred me in her heart.

English

Etymology 1

A dialectal variant of gum.

Noun

goom (plural gooms)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) Alternative form of gum
   • 1738 November 24, Richard Kay, Diary:

     November 24. This Day I've spent some Time in my Closet, have been but ill to Day of Tumour in my Goom which is this Afternoon burst.

   • 1833, Asa Greene, The Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth, volume 2, page 5:

     "I'm cutting the goom," replied the student.

     "You've got the wrong tooth," roared the man.

   • 1898, The Outlook, page 69:

     Oh, just put a little hunk on the ‘ goom ’ over the tooth. I s'pose it kind o' stim-a-lates it."

   • 1907, William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases:

     Soon in the goom [gum], quick in the womb.

   • 1949, Cleone N. Collins, in an article published in Tic, the journal of the Ticonium Company:

     "And Doc will you take a look at my ‘goom’? I want my plates tight, so they won't drop or bob. Say Doc, will I be able to eat corn on the cob?"

   • 1973, Northwest dentistry, volume 52, page 94:

     Why didn't you just pull it? My goom still has a sore where you put that needle.

Etymology 2

Noun

goom (uncountable)

1. (especially Australia) methylated spirits.
   • 1988, Ruby Langford, Susan Hampton, Don't Take Your Love to Town, page 106:

     I rushed to see what was wrong and I could smell metho on his breath. 'Robbie, who gave you the goom?'

   • 1993, Mudrooroo, The aboriginal protestors confront the declaration of the Australian Republic, in The Mudrooroo/Müller Project: A Theatrical Casebook ?ISBN, page 107

     THE BUREAUCRAT I didn't touch him; I didn't touch him. The goom's got him.

     BOB He doesn't drink, mate. His system's not up to it.

   • 2000, Herb Wharton, Unbranded ?ISBN

     "No, don't bother, it's only a bottle of goom."

   • 2007, James Maxey, Bitterwood ?ISBN, page 181:

     He popped the cork to unleash the powerful, musk- sharp stench of goom, a powerful alcohol distilled from wild swamp cabbage and seasoned with cayenne. […] The goom spilled all over his torso. The burning sensation wasn't unpleasant.

   • 2009, Chloe Hooper, Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee ?ISBN, page 200:

     Zillman: "And he also had some goom, didn't he?"

     Kidner: "Yeah, methylated spirits."

References

• goom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Moog, gomo, mogo

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gome, goom. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz, *gaum? (“attention”).

Noun

goom m (uncountable)

1. (archaic) attention, gaum

   Synonyms: aandacht, attentie

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English guma.

Noun

goom

1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)
   • a. 1450, Arthur (Marquis of Bath's MS):

     Kynges & Erles Echon. Þes were; & many anoþer goom

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gaumr.

Noun

goom

1. Alternative form of gome (“regard”)