Covered with or stuck together by gum; made sticky or adhesive.
From be- + gum + -ed. Gum comes from Old English guma, from Latin gummi, from Greek kommi, originally from Egyptian origin. The be- prefix means 'covered with' or 'made sticky with.'
The word 'gum' traveled from ancient Egypt through Greek and Latin into English, and by the medieval period, English speakers could use the be- prefix to transform any noun into a descriptive adjective—so 'begummed' literally means 'made gummy.'
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