Gum

Definition

gum 1 / gʌm / n (usu pl ) သြားဖံုး။ Do your gums bleed when you brush your teeth? ❍ TOOTH gum 2 / gʌm / n ၁။ [U] (က) ေကာ္။ ေကာ္ေစး။ (ခ) (အပင္မွ ထြက္ေသာ) အေစး။ ၂။ [U] = CHEWING-GUM She chews gum all the time. See also BUBBLE GUM ၃။ [C] သစ္သီးရနံ႔ဂ်ယ္လီ။ fruit gums. v (-mm-) ~ A to/ onto B ; ~ A and B together ; ~ sth (down) ကပ္သည္။ ေကာ္သုတ္ထားသည္။ a gummed label (ie one that is covered in glue on one side and will stick to sth when the glue is made wet) ❍ gum pictures to/ onto card ❍ Gum the two edges together ❍ Make sure the flap is properly gummed down. ❏ be up a gum-tree [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒုကၡေရာက္သည္။ ❏ gummy adj ေစးကပ္ေသာ။ gummy eyes/ fingers. ❏ gum-tree n ယူကလစ္ပင္။ ❏ gum sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (usu passive) ကပ္ေနသည္။ My eyes were so gummed up I could hardly open them. gum 3 / gʌm / n ❏ by gum ! [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) (အံ့ဩျခင္းျပ အာေမၮိတ္စကား)။ By gum, you're right!

Examples

1. Brushing regularly keeps your gums healthy.
2. Gum disease
3. A stick of gum
4. Aromatic gum