adjective · rare

toom

toom · more toom · most toom

Empty; bareEmpty; bare.

» They asked me what Toom looked like.

Ich wurde gefragt, wie Tom aussehe. — Waldelfe

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Meaning

1 senses

(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, rare)Empty; bare.

Examples

1 sentences

They asked me what Toom looked like.
deIch wurde gefragt, wie Tom aussehe. — Waldelfe
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Origin

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *t

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

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