Meaning of gaum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Heed; attention.
   UK, dialectal, rare, uncountable
2. Grime.
   rare, uncountable
3. A bit, a small amount.
   dialectal, rare
4. A useless person.
   colloquial, dialectal, rare
5. A village.
   India, archaic

Examples

“"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."”

“"Good-night, Uncle Nat," he called. Uncle Nat walked on in grim silence, never turning his head, for quite half a dozen paces. Then he came back to the gate to which Adam had also returned. "Tak' no gaum o' my gruntlin', Addy," asked Uncle.”

“"Take⟳ no gaum," he said. "I've not heard her. This is between thee and me, Tommy. I'll use⟳ but one hand."”

“"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'."”

“Said 'Black Bill' Walker, of Walker's Valley, in speaking of the forge: 'I never heerd sech a rackity-rack! Ye'd think⟳ the heavens was fallin' down! Them fellers aworkin' thar in the sweat⟳ an' gaum reminded me more of the gate to the bad place⟳!'”

“They thrust their wedge-shaped faces into the light⟳, then, one by one, tried the air with their delicate paper wings. The air bore them up; they circled lazily over the heads of men, they lit on hands and faces and in the gaum of wounds, they died underfoot.”

“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.”

“The Rockwellian palette was what Arkansans would call⟳ a "gaum" of sentiment— sentimentality, the cynical would say⟳. His paintings were what these same cynics would probably call⟳ "representational," […]”

“"There aint a gaum of grub to be found nowheres. If rain⟳ was syrup, we'd all be gorged, but there aint enough sup to make⟳ a housefly floop his snoot."”

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

“I saw⟳ standing up out of the grass a murderous length of sharp steel. Some gaum of a farm boy had abandoned this scythe while cutting bundles of sourgrass for cattle-breeding.”

“I'm no gaum. I'll work⟳ th' delivery in such a wise way that neither of the boyos'll fall⟳ into the suspicion they had lost as much as a burnt-out match⟳.”

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