Definitions from Wiktionary (GUM)
▸ noun: (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
▸ verb: To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
▸ verb: (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
▸ noun: (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
▸ noun: (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
▸ noun: (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
▸ noun: (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
▸ noun: (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
▸ noun: (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
▸ noun: (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
▸ noun: (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
▸ noun: A gum tree.
▸ verb: (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
▸ verb: To stiffen with glue or gum.
▸ verb: (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
▸ verb: (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Initialism of genitourinary medicine.
▸ noun: Initialism of GUM (department store).
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▸ noun: (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
▸ verb: To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
▸ verb: (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
▸ noun: (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
▸ noun: (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
▸ noun: (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
▸ noun: (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
▸ noun: (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
▸ noun: (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
▸ noun: (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
▸ noun: (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
▸ noun: A gum tree.
▸ verb: (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
▸ verb: To stiffen with glue or gum.
▸ verb: (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
▸ verb: (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Initialism of genitourinary medicine.
▸ noun: Initialism of GUM (department store).
Similar:
chewing gum,
mucilage,
glue,
mumble,
gumwood,
gum tree,
gingiva,
gumchewing,
chewing-gum,
gum job,
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