## Meanings
1. A sweet, soft substance that you chew but do not swallow.
2. The firm pink flesh in your mouth around the base of your teeth.
3. A sticky substance that comes out of certain trees and plants.
4. To stick or cover something with a sticky substance.

## Examples
- She offered me a piece of gum after lunch.
- The dentist said my gums were healthy.
- Gum oozed slowly from the cut in the tree trunk.
- The lock had been gummed up with dried paint.

## Derived Forms
- apple-gum
- begum
- box-gum
- bubble-gum
- bubblegum
- degum
- doctor-gum
- estergum
- floodgum
- gum-boiler
- gum-bucket
- gum-chewer

## Related Forms
- gumma
- gummatous
- gummiferous
- gummite
- gummose
- gummosis
- gummosity
- gummous

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: gomme
- Root: gome
- Root: gumma
- Root: cummi
- Root: κόμμι
- Root: qmy

## Etymology
From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma.

## AI Etymology
Gum comes from Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma. In current use, the main senses are “A sweet, soft substance that you chew but do not swallow” and “The firm pink flesh in your mouth around the base of your teeth”.

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