vum
/vʌm/verb, interjection
vum is a verb meaning “To vow, swear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-U-M, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vum mean?
verb
- 1
UScolloquialTo vow, swear.
interjection
- 1
USAn exclamation of surprise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vum?
- UK /vʌm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vum.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vum
- vums present, singular, he/she/it
- vumming participle, present
- vummed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vum?
Vum appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vum come from?
Alteration of vow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).