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| - | <tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''toom''' ''mt.'' '''1.''' Destitute; hollow; without. '''2.''' [[Clamper]] slang for a Dutch hooker. | + | <tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''toom''' ''mt.'' '''1.''' Destitute; hollow; without. '''2.''' [[Clamper]] slang for a Dutch hooker. '''3.''' A receptacle for trash; a dump. '''4.''' To empty. '''5.''' Free time, only boring. |
| == Usage == | == Usage == | ||
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| - | "Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle." -- Burns, Robert. ''Earnest Cry & Prayer vii.'' 1786. | + | ''"Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle."'' -- Burns, Robert. ''Earnest Cry & Prayer vii.'' 1786. |
| - | ...the innards of a jack-o-lantern, the soul of a man... | + | ''...the innards of a jack-o-lantern, the soul of a man...'' |
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| + | ''"She..was like to hae toomed it a' out into the slap-basin as she was to toom the likes o' you."'' -- an obsolete Scottish insult, hurled as a precurser to [[fisticuffs]] | ||
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| + | ''"New Orleans, toomed by [[Hurricane|nature]] and doomed by [[Human|men]]...."'' | ||
| == See Also == | == See Also == | ||
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| ''Zero times anything'' is zero. | ''Zero times anything'' is zero. | ||
| + | ''Remember, kids,'' that "toom" is just "moot" spelled backwards! | ||
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| toom mt. 1. Destitute; hollow; without. 2. Clamper slang for a Dutch hooker. 3. A receptacle for trash; a dump. 4. To empty. 5. Free time, only boring.
[edit] Usage"Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle." -- Burns, Robert. Earnest Cry & Prayer vii. 1786. ...the innards of a jack-o-lantern, the soul of a man... "She..was like to hae toomed it a' out into the slap-basin as she was to toom the likes o' you." -- an obsolete Scottish insult, hurled as a precurser to fisticuffs "New Orleans, toomed by nature and doomed by men...." [edit] See Also |
[edit] DesiderataZero times anything is zero. Remember, kids, that "toom" is just "moot" spelled backwards! |
