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| with; combined with; along with (usually used in combination): My garage-cum-workshop is well equipped. |
[Origin: 1580–90; < L: with, together with (prep.)
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intr.v. came (kām), come, com·ing, comes
n. Vulgar Slang also cum (kŭm) Semen ejaculated during orgasm. Phrasal Verbs: come about
Phrasal Verb(s): come about
To cause to be in conflict or estrangement. come by
To acquire, especially as an inheritance: She came into a fortune on her 21st birthday. come off
To discover or meet by accident. come with Informal To accompany someone; go along: I'm going to the store; do you want to come with? Idiom(s): come a cropper To fail utterly. Idiom(s): come again Used as a request to repeat what was said. Idiom(s): come clean To confess all. Idiom(s): come down on To punish, oppose, or reprimand severely and often with force: a district attorney who came down hard on drug dealers. Idiom(s): come down to
Idiom(s): come down with To become sick with (an illness): came down with the flu. Idiom(s): come in for To receive; be subjected to: came in for harsh criticism. Idiom(s): come into (one's) own
Idiom(s): come off it Slang To stop acting or speaking foolishly or pretentiously. Often used in the imperative. Idiom(s): come out with
Idiom(s): come to blows To begin a physical fight. Idiom(s): come to grief To meet with disaster; fail. Idiom(s): come to grips with To confront squarely and attempt to deal decisively with: "He had to come to grips with the proposition" (Louis Auchincloss). Idiom(s): come to light/hand To be clearly revealed or disclosed: "A further problem . . . came to light last summer as a result of post-flight inspections" (John Noble Wilford). Idiom(s): come to terms
Idiom(s): come true To happen as predicted: My fondest dreams have at last come true. Idiom(s): come up against To encounter, especially a difficulty or major problem. Idiom(s): come up with To bring forth, discover, or produce: came up with a cure for the disease. [Middle English comen, from Old English cuman; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.] |
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| cum 1
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prep. Together with; plus. Often used in combination: our attic-cum-studio. [Latin; see kom in Indo-European roots.] |
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| cum 2
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n. Vulgar Slang Variant of come. |
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(v. and n.) seems to be a modern (by 1973) variant of the sexual sense of come that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun sense. This "experience sexual orgasm" slang meaning of come (perhaps originally come off) is attested from 1650, in "Walking In A Meadowe Greene," in a folio of "loose songs" collected by Bishop Percy.
They lay soe close together, they made me much to wonder;As a noun meaning "semen or other product of orgasm" it is on record from the 1920s. The sexual cum seems to have no connection with L. cum, the preposition meaning "with, together with," which is occasionally used in English in local names of combined parishes or benifices (e.g. Chorlton-cum-Hardy), in popular Latin phrases (e.g. cum laude), or as a combining word to indicate a dual nature or function (e.g. slumber party-cum-bloodbath).
I knew not which was wether, until I saw her under.
Then off he came, and blusht for shame soe soon that he had endit;
Yet still she lies, and to him cryes, "one more and none can mend it."
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noun | |
| the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen] |
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