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-<tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''toom''' ''mt.'' '''1.''' Destitute; hollow; without. '''2.''' [[Clamper]] slang for a Dutch hooker.+<tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''toom''' ''mt.'' '''1.''' Destitute; hollow; without. '''2.''' [[Clamper]] slang for a Dutch hooker. '''3.''' A receptacle for trash; a dump. '''4.''' To empty. '''5.''' Free time, only boring.
== Usage == == Usage ==
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-"Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle." -- Burns, Robert. ''Earnest Cry & Prayer vii.'' 1786.+''"Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle."'' -- Burns, Robert. ''Earnest Cry & Prayer vii.'' 1786.
-...the innards of a jack-o-lantern, the soul of a man...+''...the innards of a jack-o-lantern, the soul of a man...''
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 +''"She..was like to hae toomed it a' out into the slap-basin as she was to toom the likes o' you."'' -- an obsolete Scottish insult, hurled as a precurser to [[fisticuffs]]
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 +''"New Orleans, toomed by [[Hurricane|nature]] and doomed by [[Human|men]]...."''
== See Also == == See Also ==
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''Zero times anything'' is zero. ''Zero times anything'' is zero.
 +''Remember, kids,'' that "toom" is just "moot" spelled backwards!
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toom mt. 1. Destitute; hollow; without. 2. Clamper slang for a Dutch hooker. 3. A receptacle for trash; a dump. 4. To empty. 5. Free time, only boring.

Usage


"Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle." -- Burns, Robert. Earnest Cry & Prayer vii. 1786.

...the innards of a jack-o-lantern, the soul of a man...

"She..was like to hae toomed it a' out into the slap-basin as she was to toom the likes o' you." -- an obsolete Scottish insult, hurled as a precurser to fisticuffs

"New Orleans, toomed by nature and doomed by men...."

See Also


Desiderata


Zero times anything is zero.

Remember, kids, that "toom" is just "moot" spelled backwards!