| 释义 |
vum, v. U.S. colloq.|vʌm|
[Alteration of vow v.2]
intr. To vow, swear.
1785Mass. Spy 13 Oct. 2/2 We all must dreadful mindful be That we must fight for liberty And vum we'll 'fend it, if we die. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. xii, ‘I vum,’ said he, ‘what is the matter?’ 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. xi. (1891) 253 But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an ‘I dew vum’, or an ‘I tell yeou’).
Hence vum n.
1881Harper's Mag. Jan. 249 Darius was piqued, and he said, with a vum, ‘I'll pay for the wood, if you'll send it hum’. |