Definitions for Gum

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Gum gum

Spelling: [guhm]

IPA: /gʌm/

Gum is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Gum (gmu).

Definitions for Gum

noun

1. any of various viscid, amorphous exudations from plants, hardening on exposure to air and soluble in or forming a viscid mass with water.
2. any of various similar exudations, as resin.
3. a preparation of such a substance, as for use in the arts or bookbinding.
4. chewing gum.
5. mucilage; glue.
6. rubber1 (def 1).
7. gum tree.
8. Philately. the adhesive by which a postage stamp is affixed. Compare o.g (def 1).
9. Informal. a rubber overshoe or boot.
10. Often, gums. Also called gingiva. the firm, fleshy tissue covering the alveolar parts of either jaw and enveloping the necks of the teeth.

Idioms

1. gum up the works. work (def 51).
2. beat one's gums, Slang. to talk excessively or ineffectively.
3. by gum, (used as a mild oath).

Verb phrases

1. gum up, Slang. to spoil or ruin.

verb (used with object)

1. to smear, stiffen, or stick together with gum.
2. to clog with or as if with some gummy substance.
3. to masticate (food) with the gums instead of teeth.
4. to shape or renew the teeth of (a saw), as by grinding.

verb (used without object)

1. to exude or form gum.
2. to become gummy.
3. to become clogged with a gummy substance.

Origin of Gum

1350-1400; Middle English gomme Old French Vulgar Latin *gumma, for Latin gummi, cummi Greek kómmi

Examples for Gum

Having localized the jaw pain, it quickly becomes unbearable, and I spit the gum out to give my tired face a rest.

Dissolve the gum and honey in it, and strain it through muslin.

With pitch, gum, or grease, they covered up the cracks or seams.

I gather up my laptop and toss the mess of gum wrappers and chewed spearmint globs into the trash can.

Tessie rose, unrolled her scented handkerchief, and taking a bit of gum from a knot in the hem, placed it in her mouth.

Walmart uses a lot more labor per sale than Costco does because it sells more than one kind of gum, and not always by the 24-pack.

Here is a piece of gum benzoin, the substance from which Friar's balsam is made.

Republicans throw up procedural obstacles just to gum up the works and run out the clock.

Then, so an English writer tells us, a use was found for the gum—and a name.

For marbling books or paper, dissolve four ounces of gum arabac in two quarts of water, and pour it into a broad vessel.