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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1932-1934
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WHOOM, v., n. [ʍu:m]
I. v. To burst into flames with a dull booming sound, to roar up.Kcd. 1932 L. G. Gibbon Sunset Song 99:
It whoomed in an instant, the whin.
II. n. A blaze; a roaring sound.Kcd. 1932 L. G. Gibbon Sunset Song 113:
None of them spoke for long, listening to that whoom and blatter on the window-panes.Kcd. 1934 L. G. Gibbon Grey Granite 44:
[He] wheeled up a load and flung it deep in the whoom of the flame.
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