vroom

Imitative

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vɹuːm/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vɹum/, /vɹʊm/
• Rhymes: -uːm, -ʊm

vroom

1. The sound of an engine revving up.

   I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.

vroom (countable and uncountable, plural vrooms)

1. The sound of an engine revving up.
   • 2003, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 2, page 52:

     Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.

vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)

1. (informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

• putt putt

From Middle Dutch vrōme (“firm, upright”), an adjective derived from the noun vrōme (“benefit, use”), from Old Dutch *fruma, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

• IPA^(key): /vroːm/

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• Hyphenation: vroom
• Rhymes: -oːm

vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)

1. pious, devout

   Synonym: godvruchtig

• vroomheid

• Negerhollands: vroom, vrom