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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1932-1933

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SHOOM, n., v. Only used by Gibbon. [ʃu:m]

I. n. A low buzzing or humming sound.Kcd. 1932 L. G. Gibbon Sunset Song 58:
All the darkness they heard that sea, a shoom-shoom that moaned by the cliffs of lone Kinneff.
Kcd. 1933 L. G. Gibbon Cloud Howe 159:
Down by Meiklebogs the curlews were calling, you heard them above the shoom of the Mills.

II. v. To make a gushing noise of this sort.Kcd. 1932 L. G. Gibbon Sunset Song 43:
The roads . . . were . . . thick with dust So that the motor-cars went shooming through them like kettles under steam.

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