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Gamy vs Gaumy - What's the difference?

gamy | gaumy |

As adjectives the difference between gamy and gaumy

is that gamy is an alternative spelling of lang=en while gaumy is sticky; smeared with something sticky.

gamy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • gaumy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gormy

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (US, and, UK, dialects) Sticky; smeared with something sticky.
  • * 1914 , Edwin Markham, Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation :
    • The narrow, dark stairs are gaumy with paste, and everywhere open barrels of the mixture gave out the sickening, sour odor that is always in the nostrils of the workers.
  • * 1916 , Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers , page 164:
    • And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumy
    With Cosmic cosmetics, was there,
    But the Swami went just as the Swami,
    After oiling the kinks in his hair.
    I said to Hermione: "Goddess! You're graceful, you're Greek, you're a rose, "
  • * 1946 , Jessie Scott, The Charity Ball , page 259:
    • Far from being gaumy with pitch, they looked rather remarkably smooth and well manicured.