gaum /ɡɔːm/noun 5verb 2forms 3 noun5 •(rare) Grime."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'." — 1913 •(dialect, rare) Heed; attention."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." — 1862 •(informal, rare) A useless person.He's a scrawny gaum of a lad named Tony Regan, the tailor's eldest son. — 1946 •(dialect, rare) A bit, a small amount."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." — 1990 •(India, no longer used) A village. verb2 •(dialect, US) To smear.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; […] — 1894 •(dialect, no longer used) To understand; comprehend; consider.'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said. — 1896 formsgaumed · gauming · gaums
