gum

Meaning

Noun

The flesh around the teeth.

Verb

1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
2. (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

Verb

1. (sometimes, with-up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
2. To stiffen with glue or gum.
3. (sometimes) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
4. (colloquial, with-up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

Synonyms

glue

resin

chewing gum

gingiva

rubber

mucilage

paste

gums

sap

eraser

gum tree

adhesive

bubble gum

pitch

mumble

cement

chewing-gum

gumwood

India rubber

ula

stick

contract

cling

gum up

hard palate

honey

🍯

india-rubber

intrude

jaw

juice

latex

lower jaw

mastic

cleave

clay

chewing tobacco

cheat

pyorrhea

chatter

rosin

candle

🕯️

rubber tree

bloodwood

shellac

size

splice

stamp

syrup

tar

valor

Translations

gencive

gengiva

Zahnfleisch

encía

gomme

goma

chicle

gomma

tandvlees

gengiva

Gummi

Kaugummi

goma de mascar

chewing-gum

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡʌm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gome

Inherited from Old English: gōma

Cognate with German: Gaumen

Cognate with Old Norse: gómr

Cognate with Tokharian A: ko

Cognate with Tokharian B: koyṃ

Cognate with Lithuanian: gomurỹs

Inherited from Middle English: gomme

Cognate with Spanish: goma

In summary

From Middle English gome, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô, *gaumô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂u-mo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to gape, yawn”).
See also German Gaumen, Old Norse gómr, Icelandic gómur; also Tocharian A ko, Tocharian B koyṃ (“mouth”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”). More at yawn.

Sentences

Like the Topps cards , they were sold with gum .

The gum was packaged in a red , white , and blue color scheme .