gaum

Etymology 1
The noun is from dialectal (Northern) English, from, from , , from , from. The verb is from, from the noun. Compare native 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Heed; attention.

Verb

 * 1)  To understand; comprehend; consider.
 * 2) * 1896, James Keighley Snowden, Web of an Old Weaver, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition):
 * 'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said.
 * 1) * 1870, John Christopher Atkinson, Lost, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition):
 * Aye sir, we gaum ye.
 * Aye sir, we gaum ye.

Etymology 2

 * perhaps a variant of.

Verb

 * 1)  To smear.
 * 2) * 1894, Rowland Evans Robinson, Danvis Folks, chapter VI, The Paring-Bee, page 117:
 * No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in;

Etymology 3
. Possibly related to.

Noun

 * 1)  Grime.
 * 2) * 1927, Robert Lindsay Mason, The lure of the Great Smokies, page 150:
 * 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!'
 * 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!'

Etymology 4
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Noun

 * 1)  A bit, a small amount.

Etymology 5
Probably a variant of (an Irish English slang term for a foolish person), but possibly related to or influenced by.

Noun

 * 1)  A useless person.

Etymology 6
Variant of, which see for more.

Verb

 * 1)  to make a mess of.

Noun

 * 1)  A village.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) attention