gaum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Heed; attention.

   “"S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!" "Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop."”

2. fiil To understand; comprehend; consider.

   “"We said nowt on 't. Ther' no 'casion to stir up trouble. But we all gaumed 'at when he heerd t' sounds o' them 'at com to lowse us he'd crawled off into t' workin's an' brayed his head agean a shou'der o' quartz."”

3. fiil To smear.

   “No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in; […]”

4. isim Grime.

   “"douse your head under the pump and wash some of the gaum off your hands and we'll see what your Aunt Debbie can do for that empty feelin'."”

5. isim A bit, a small amount.

   “When he had let what he deemed was a sufficiency of blood out of the incised vein, he called to Elvira to bring a spoon of "sut" from off the back of the fireplace and a "gaum" of spiderwebs from somewhere or other.”

6. isim A useless person.

   “He's a scrawny gaum of a lad named Tony Regan, the tailor's eldest son.”

7. fiil Alternative form of gorm (to make a mess of).

   “"She'll get plum bereft 'n worried, even git the all'overs, if n the place's all gaumed up."”

8. isim A village.