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toom¹

Rhymes with -uːm

Where it comes from

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

adjective more toom · most toom

  1. Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, rare Empty; bare. Gin she was toom afore, she's toomer now, Her heart was like to loup out at her mou'.

    Similar: vacant, void, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, clean, leer, toom, unfilled, vacuumlike, vacuous

noun tooms

  1. Scottish A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.

verb tooms · tooming · toomed

  1. dialectal, rare To empty; teem.

toom²

Rhymes with -uːm

Where it comes from

From Middle English toom, tome, tom, from Old Norse tóm (“vacant time, leisure”), from Proto-Germanic *tōmą (“vacant time, leisure”). Related to Old Norse tómr (“vacant, empty”).

noun tooms

  1. uncountable, usually Vacant time, leisure. He had exhausted Bath, but his connections and introductions made the transition easy. There was toom for two in the capital.

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@misc{toom_2026,
  title = {toom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/toom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}