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Etymology 1 n. (lb en UK dialectal rare) heed; attention. vb. (context dialectal obsolete English) To understand; comprehend; consider. Etymology 2
alt. (context US and UK dialects chiefly South Midlands Southern US Appalachia English) To smear. vb. (context US and UK dialects chiefly South Midlands Southern US Appalachia English) To smear. Etymology 3
n. (lb en Appalachia and other dialects rare) grime. Etymology 4
n. (lb en dialectal rare) A bit, a small amount. Etymology 5
n. (lb en rare dialectal or colloquial) A useless person. Etymology 6
vb. (alternative form of gorm lang=en nodot=1) (gloss: to make a mess of).
Usage examples of "gaum".
And so, by foreordination from the beginning of time, this fly was left behind to seek out a typhoid corpse and feed upon its corruptions and gaum its legs with germs and transmit them to the re-peopled world for permanent business.
Then you lets everything kind of gaum up together over hot coals until it smells just right, and all the meats is tender.
Aye, that is Blood gauming up the Scuppers, but is the Captain chicken-hearted?
For it is said that something lives in them-something other than the gaums that eat men's brains.
He had always suspected that the Entity in the Hole had no real control over the gaums, and it was for that reason that he had never gone near it unprotected.