noun

• (UK, dialectal, rare) Heed; attention.
  ""S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!" "Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop.""

verb

• (dialectal, obsolete) To understand; comprehend; consider.
  ""We said nowt on 't. Ther' no 'casion to stir up trouble. But we all gaumed 'at when he heerd t' sounds o' them 'at com to lowse us he'd crawled off into t' workin's an' brayed his head agean a shou'der o' quartz.""

verb

• (US and UK, dialects, chiefly Midlands, Southern US, Appalachia) To smear.
  "No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in; […]"

noun

• (Appalachia and other dialects, rare) Grime.
  ""douse your head under the pump and wash some of the gaum off your hands and we'll see what your Aunt Debbie can do for that empty feelin'.""