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ghoom

ghoom verb: to hunt for animals by stealth in an area where they are likely to be found on the move.

Verb

ghoom (third-person singular simple present ghooms, present participle ghooming, simple past and past participle ghoomed)

  1. (India, dated, intransitive) To hunt for animals by stealth in an area where they are likely to be found on the move.
    • Once more we ghoomed. Turning northward this time, it was the eastern portion of the plateau that we faced, rather rougher country than on the side we had lately traversed, […]1905, Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd, Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle, page 86
    • On off days we went ghooming in the forests and savannahs swarming with game, and picked up various sorts of deer and another leopard.1953, Olive Smythies, Tiger Lady: Adventures in the Indian Jungle, page 222

Noun

ghoom (plural ghooms)

  1. (India, dated) A hunt of this kind.
    • A ghoom, too, is often an excellent time for a spear to take on and hunt a pig alone.1928, The Hoghunters' Annual, page 67

Proper noun capitalized: Ghoom

Ghoom

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Ghum, West Bengal.
    • The greatest railway altitudes in India are very far from establishing world records. Ghoom Station, on the Darjeeling-Himalayan line, is 7,407 ft. above the sea, and takes 40th place among the world's railway summits.1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Maximum Railway Altitudes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128

Forms of ghoom

Verb
third-person singular presentghooms
present participleghooming
past participleghoomed
pastghoomed
Noun
pluralghooms

Origin of ghoom

From Hindi घूमना (ghūmnā, “to wander, turn”).

Questions about ghoom

What does ghoom mean?
Ghoom means to hunt for animals by stealth in an area where they are likely to be found on the move.
What part of speech is ghoom?
Ghoom can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of ghoom?
The past tense of ghoom is ghoomed.

Words near ghoom in the dictionary

  1. Ghonaquas
  2. ghonnella
  3. ghonnellas
  4. ghood
  5. Ghoolendaadi
  6. ghoom
  7. ghoomar
  8. ghoomars
  9. ghoomed
  10. ghooming
  11. ghooms

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