different between toom vs coom

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English t?m (“empty”), from Proto-Germanic *t?maz (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

Adjective

toom (comparative more toom, superlative most toom)

1. (rare or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Empty; bare.

Derived terms

• toomly

Noun

toom (plural tooms)

1. (chiefly Scottish) A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.

Verb

toom (third-person singular simple present tooms, present participle tooming, simple past and past participle toomed)

1. (rare or dialectal) To empty; teem.

Etymology 2

From Middle English toom, tome, tom, from Old Norse tóm (“vacant time, leisure”), from Proto-Germanic *t?m? (“vacant time, leisure”). Related to Old Norse tómr (“vacant, empty”).

Noun

toom (usually uncountable, plural tooms)

1. Vacant time, leisure.

References

• “toom” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• MOTO, moot, moto, moto-, tomo-

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *t?m, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.Doublet with Dutch team, from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

toom m or n (plural tomen, diminutive toompje n)

1. bridle, rein

   Je moet die jongens echt even in toom houden - You really need to keep those boys in check

2. a flock of birds (especially ducks, geese and swans)
3. frenulum

Anagrams

• moot

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *toomi, from Proto-Uralic *?ëme.

Noun

toom (genitive toome, partitive toome)

1. bird cherry

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• toomingas

English

Etymology 1

Related to Icelandic kámugur.

Noun

coom (uncountable)

1. soot, smut
2. dust
3. grease

Etymology 2

See come.

Verb

coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past and past participle coomed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of come.
   • 1838–1839, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 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.”

Etymology 3

Noun

coom (plural cooms)

1. (Scotland) The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
2. (Scotland) Anything arched or vaulted.

Derived terms

• coom-ceiled

Anagrams

• COMO, Como, MOOC, MoCo, moco