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gaum

  [gawm, gahm]
Use gaum in a Sentence
–verb (used with object) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often fol. by up): My clothes were gaumed up from that axle grease.
Also, gorm.

Origin:
1790–1800; also Brit. dial.; of uncert. orig.
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gaum   (gôm)   
tr.v.   gaumed, gaum·ing, gaums Upper Southern U.S.
To smudge or smear.

[Perhaps alteration of obsolete gome, grease, variant of coom, soot, mixture of dirt and axle grease, variant of culm2.]
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