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dum

adjectiveinterjectionadjectiveadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //dʌm//

cooked with steam

adjective

  1. 1

    cooked with steam

Etymology

From Hindi दम (dam).

interjection

  1. 1

    Syllable used when humming a tune.

    I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who. Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of dumbAlternative spelling of dumb.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of damnPronunciation spelling of damn.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).