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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.
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...." See Also |
DesiderataZero times anything is zero. Remember, kids, that "toom" is just "moot" spelled backwards! |
