Associations to the word «Toom»

Wiktionary

TOOM, adjective. (rare or dialectal) (Northern England) (Scotland) Empty.
TOOM, noun. (chiefly Scottish) A piece of waste ground where rubbish is shot.
TOOM, verb. (rare or dialectal) To empty; teem.
TOOM, noun. Vacant time, leisure.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats