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begaum

begaum verb: to smear (with something sticky or messy).

Verb

begaum (third-person singular simple present begaums, present participle begauming, simple past and past participle begaumed)

  1. (UK, US, dialectal, past, rare) To smear (with something sticky or messy).
    • Honest toil! The kind that bedews a guy's brow with honest sweat and also begaums it with what came from the crank case and off the axle; […]1926 January 2, Kennett Harris, “Onward and Upward Led”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 198, number 27, page 6
    • He was wearing jeans and a blue shirt too, but they wasn't all begaumed, the shirt had been clean afore he sweated it out clumbing up the hill.1963, Dorothy B. Hughes, “The Granny Woman”, in Gamma, volume 1, number 2, page 5

Forms of begaum

third-person singular presentbegaums
present participlebegauming
past participlebegaumed
pastbegaumed

Origin of begaum

From be- + gaum.

Questions about begaum

What does begaum mean?
Begaum means to smear (with something sticky or messy).
What part of speech is begaum?
Begaum is a verb.
What is the past tense of begaum?
The past tense of begaum is begaumed.

Words near begaum in the dictionary

  1. begathons
  2. begats
  3. begattest
  4. begaud
  5. begauded
  6. begaum
  7. begaumed
  8. begauming
  9. begaums
  10. begave
  11. begavolt

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