vumv.
/vʌm/ U.S. colloquial.
intransitive. To vow, swear.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)]
queatheOE
sweara900
fangc1175
behightc1275
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
vowa1325
avowc1400
to plight (one's) faithc1410
promitc1422
promise1447
creance1477
to take in vow1526
votec1540
depose1610
vum1785
to nail down1859
pledge1928
1785 Massachusetts 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.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xii ‘I vum,’ said he, ‘what is the matter?’
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 296 But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an ‘I dew vum’, or an ‘I tell yeou’).
Derivatives
vum n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn
oathOE
swarec1200
sermenta1325
jurament1575
asseveration1602
sanction1611
contestation1614
vowa1616
dejeration1626
sweara1643
dejury1683
fetish1705
vum1881
oath-pledge1884
1881 Harper'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’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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v.1785- from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations
- from side to side
- from soda card to hock
- from soda to hock
- from soup to nuts
- from southaway
- from space to space
- from start to finish
- from stem to stern
- from stern to stem
- from strength
- from strength to strength
- from sun to sun
- from sunder
- from sunup to sundown
- from that
- from that or this day or time forthward
- from the bias
- from the bottom of one's heart
- from the bottom up
- from the bottom upwards
- from the corner to the staff
- from the cradle
- from the crown to the toes
- from the dead