coom

American  

[koom] / kum /

Or coomb

noun

Chiefly Scot. and North England.

1. soot; coal dust; smut.

2. dust, especially sawdust or dust from a gristmill.

3. grease from bearings, axles, etc.

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coom British  

/ kuːm /

noun

1. dialect waste material, such as dust from coal, grease from axles, etc

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Etymology

Origin of coom

First recorded in 1580–90; variant of culm ¹

Example Sentences

Katy had occasionally poked her head in at the door, entreating “whin they coom to the scroobing” to call her.

From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Speed, Nell

Get away back an' coom oop in't queue like oother people!'

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

“Yes,” rejoins the rustic, “soo there ees, but you a’n’t coom to un yit, master.”

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.

I didn’t need te coom te you for counsel.

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis

Well, she left ma aloän at laäst, an' I hedn't a mossel o' hoäpe— When by coom Harry the hedger, an a' hoickt ma oop with a roäpe!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various