transitive verbgaumed, gaum·ing, gaums Upper Southern US
To smudge or smear.
Origin of gaumPerhaps alteration of obsolete gome, grease, variant of coom, soot, mixture of dirt and axle grease, variant of culm2.
(third-person singular simple present gaums, present participle gauming, simple past and past participle gaumed)
From Middle English *gomen, from the noun. See above.