different between toom vs foom

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

Imitative. Compare boom.

Interjection

foom

1. The sound of a muffled explosion.
   • 2000, James Bradley, Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima

     Those flat-trajectory shells would skim straight in, making a roaring sound in the dark: Foom! Foom! Foom!

   • 2007, Warren Murphy, James Mullaney, The New Destroyer: Guardian Angel

     A soft, distant foom. The lights blinked, then faded. Foom-foom-foom! Explosions, one after another, rocked the tunnel.

Noun

foom (plural fooms)

1. A sudden increase in artificial intelligence such that an AI system becomes extremely powerful.

Verb

foom (third-person singular simple present fooms, present participle fooming, simple past and past participle foomed)

1. To exhibit an AI foom.

Anagrams

• FOMO, FoMO, mofo, moof

Middle English

Noun

foom

1. Alternative form of fome