Meaning

6 senses
  1. (uncountable)Soot, smut

  2. (uncountable)Dust

  3. (uncountable)Grease

  4. (Scotland)The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.

  5. (Scotland)Anything arched or vaulted.

  6. (humorous, slang, sometimes, uncountable)Semen.

Origin

From Middle English culme, colme, of unknown origin but probably from or related to Old En

From Middle English culme, colme, of unknown origin but probably from or related to Old English col (“coal”). Related to culm and Icelandic kámugur.

From Scots coom, of unknown origin.

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Forms

plural: cooms
Singularcoom

uncountable

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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