gawm

Noun

gom (plural goms)

1. (Ireland) A foolish person.
   • “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack, Dublin: M.H. Gill, page 139

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Verb (1)

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
2. (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

Verb (2)

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

1. (sometimes, with-up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
   • However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint.2012, Julie Hedgepeth Williams, A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival, →ISBN, page 184
2. To stiffen with glue or gum.
   • He frets like a gummed velvet.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
3. (sometimes) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
   • It consists in gumming together long strips of words [that] have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.1946, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
4. (colloquial, with-up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
   • That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.

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