paum

See palm (“to cheat”).

• IPA^(key): /pɔːm/, /pɑːm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːm, -ɑːm

paum (third-person singular simple present paums, present participle pauming, simple past and past participle paumed)

1. (obsolete) To palm off by fraud; to cheat or swindle
   • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:

     A Rogue that lock'd up his drink, turn'd away our Wives , cheated us of our Fortunes ; paum'd his damn'd Crufts upon us for Mutton

• “paum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Puma, puma, upma