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dum spiro, spero [doo m spee-roh, spey-roh; English duhm spahy-roh, speer-oh] EXAMPLES| Latin. while I breathe, I hope: a motto of South Carolina. Liberaldictionary.com
dum vivimus, vivamus [doo m wee-wi-moo s, wi-wah-moo s; English duhm viv-i-muh s, vi-vey-muh s] Latin. while we are alive, let us live. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for dum Contemporary Examples of dum
The Senate will have to expedite its usual clock to do that, and that requires…dum da-dum…unanimous consent.
The Senate’s (Hoped For) Cease-Fire
Michael Tomasky
October 15, 2013
Historical Examples of dum
And I’d just as soon be here, and a dum sight juster, as the feller said.
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
They be dum good blokes, to give their money to a squatter, ain’t they?
Grace Miller White
During the present life he was hoping for it, “Dum Spiro, Spero.”
Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851
Various
Pa asked how much of this dum fooling there was, and said he was sorry he joined.
George W. Peck
No, please let me wash,” begged Dum, “I adore sloshing in suds.
The Carter Girls’ Week-End Camp
Nell Speed
