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kookums

kookums is the plural of kookum.

Meaning of kookum

Noun

kookum (plural kookums)

  1. grandmother (among the Cree people)
    • My Kookum was a storyteller and all the stories she told were told in Cree.2014, Neal McLeod, Indigenous Poetics in Canada, page 18

Questions about kookums

What is kookums the plural of?
Kookums is the plural of kookum.

Words near kookums in the dictionary

  1. kookries
  2. kookris
  3. kookry
  4. kooks
  5. kookum
  6. kookums
  7. kooky
  8. kool
  9. kool-aid
  10. Kool-Aid smile
  11. Kool-Aid smiles

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