(comparative more toom, superlative most toom)
- (rare or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Empty.
(third-person singular simple present tooms, present participle tooming, simple past and past participle toomed)
- (rare or dialectal) To empty.
From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-Germanic *tōmaz (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).