different between vom vs gom

English

Etymology

Clipping of vomit.

Noun

vom (uncountable)

1. (informal) vomit

Verb

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

1. (informal) vomit
   • 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle (page 185)

     Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.

   • 2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer

     Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp^[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.

Anagrams

• MOV, OMV, mov.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vomu, zvom, zvomu

Etymology

From Latin vom?. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

vom (third-person singular present indicative voami/voame, past participle vumutã)

1. I vomit.

Related terms

• voamiri / voamire, vumeari / vumeare, vumeri
• vumut

See also

• versu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse v?mb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?m/, [v?m?]

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

1. belly
2. paunch

Declension

Derived terms

• vommet

Further reading

• “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Pronunciation

Contraction

vom (+ adjective ending with -em + masculine or neuter noun)

1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Vaamb, Vomb, vomb

Etymology

From Old Norse v?mb, from Proto-Germanic *wamb? (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.

Noun

vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly

Inflection

References

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vom]

Verb

(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

1. (we) will

   Vom lua prânzul la ora dou?sprezece.

   We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom)

Noun

vom (nominative plural voms)

1. woman (adult female human)

Declension

Hypernyms

• men
• nim

Coordinate terms

• man

Derived terms

English

Etymology 1

From Irish gámaí (“booby, dolt”).

Alternative forms

• gawm

Noun

gom (plural goms)

1. (Ireland) A foolish person.
   • 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack (Dublin : M.H. Gill) p.139:

     “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”

   • 1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, Act II, 173:

     Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.

   • 2013, Outrageous Pride ?ISBN

     He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]

   • 2014, Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy ?ISBN:

     "Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"

Etymology 2

Variant of gum.

Noun

gom (plural goms)

1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of gum
   • 1911, Why moles have hands, in The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:

     ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.

Etymology 3

Minced oath.

Interjection

gom

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) God!
   • 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:

     There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself,

   • 1829, The Humours of Vauxhall, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, volume 2, page 164:

     O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!

   • 1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36:

     "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."

   • 1908, Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, page 224:

     Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom, no. It wasn't hereabouts."

Anagrams

• GMO, O. M. G., O.M.G., OMG, mog, omg

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/

Noun

gom (uncountable)

1. Gum, a viscous or sticky substance exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• gum

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/
• Hyphenation: gom
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)

1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.
2. an object made from gum
3. Dated spelling of gum (“eraser”).

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gom
• ? Indonesian: gom
• ? Japanese: ??

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gom

1. first-person singular present indicative of gommen
2. imperative of gommen

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English guma.

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gaumr.

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gome (“regard”)

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman gome.

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gumme

Rohingya

Verb

gom

1. good

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kom ~ *koom (“to grow, to increase”); cognate with Bahnar ak?m/ak?m (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ???? (k?m, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ?????? (c?ngkaom, “bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??m??]

Verb

gom • (?)

1. to gather together

Derived terms

Noun

gom

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Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish gámaí.

Noun

gom

1. idiot, fool

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN