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gummed adjective [ ɡʌmd ]

• covered with gum or glue.
• "gummed paper"

gum verb

• cover with gum or glue.
• "we gummed the photos on to our papers"
Origin: Middle English: from Old French gomme, based on Latin gummi, from Greek kommi, from Egyptian kemai .

gum verb

• chew (something) with toothless gums.
• "the two-year-old gummed his mother's plastic-coated ration card"
Origin: Old English gōma ‘inside of the mouth or throat’, of Germanic origin; related to German Gaumen ‘roof of the mouth’.


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