Lexicographical Neighbors of Tooming
Literary usage of Tooming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"tooming, sb. wool taken off the cards. Toota well, adv. very well, too too well .
See Tula. Topple down, v. to fall. Topsy-turvy, adj. upside-down. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"tooming. An aching in the eyes. North. TOON. (1) Too. East. (2) The one ; the other.
Vor. dial. ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Tender j sickly. South. TOOM, (1) adj. Empty. North. (2) l, Unoccupied space or
room. (3) ». To take wool off tb? tooming, ». Aching in the eye*. (2) Too. ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"Unoccupied space or room. (3) ». To take wool off th» run1*. tooming, ». Aching in
the eye*. North. TOON, adj. (1) The one. (2) Too. Ea»t. TOOP, v. To tip. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"... even yet in some places ten feet in thickness, tell of times when tooming
faulds, or sweeping of a glen Had still been held the deeds of gallant men. ..."
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