toom

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited. Scottish
  2. Vacant time, leisure. uncountable,usually
    — He had exhausted Bath, but his connections and introductions made the transition easy. There was toom for two in the capital.
动词 v.
  1. To empty; teem. dialectal,rare
形容词 adj.
  1. Empty; bare. Northern-England,Scotland,dialectal,rare
    — Gin she was toom afore, she's toomer now, Her heart was like to loup out at her mou'.

词形变化

more toom comparative most toom superlative tooms plural tooms present,singular,third-person tooming participle,present toomed participle,past toomed past tooms plural

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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