Noun: gaum
Sample Sentences
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"S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!"
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"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, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, Illustrated, page 18:]
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"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. [1919, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, The Taming of Nan, page 31:]
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"Take no gaum," he said. "I've not heard her. This is between thee and me, Tommy. I'll use but one hand." [1972, William Mayne, The Incline, →ISBN, page 141:]
Nouns inflected like gaum
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
The noun is from dialectal (Northern) English, from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum, gaumr (“heed, attention”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”). The verb is from Middle English *gomen, from the noun. Compare native Middle English yemen, from Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”). See: Middle English Nouns '
gome', Old English Nouns '
ġīeman'.