Meaning

noun a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing

verb cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum

noun the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

originFrom Middle English gom, gome, gomme, goome, gum, gume, gumme, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gaumô, *gōmô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape, yawn”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian gaumo (“palate”), German Gaum, Gaumen (“palate”), Luxembourgish Gomm, Gumm (“palate”), Yiddish גומען (gumen, “palate”), Danish gumme…

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