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adj
Empty; bare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, rare
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Synonyms: vacant, void, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, clean, leer, toom, unfilled, vacuumlike, vacuous
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scottish
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Vacant time, leisure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To empty; teem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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”).
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”).
