Gammed vs Gaumed - What's the difference?
gammed | gaumed |
(gam)
(slang) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.
* 2010 , Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad (ISBN 0743446356), page 19:
* 2012 September 10, (Ariel Levy), "The Space In Between", in The New Yorker :
(Collective noun used to refer to) a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.
* 1862 , Henry Theodore Cheever, The Whalemen's Adventures in the Southern Ocean , Darton & Hodge, page 116:
* 1985 , Dennis Kyte, To the Heart of a Bear: The Last Elegant Bear (ISBN 067154781X):
* 2010 , Jack White, Mastery of Self Promotion (ISBN 0557339510), page 119:
* (seemoreCites)
(by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , Harper and Brothers,
* 1916 , Harry B. Turner, Nantucket's Early Telegraph Service'', in the ''Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association , page 50:
* 1997 , Gillies Ross, ?Margaret Penny, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country (ISBN 0773516743), page 14:
* 2007 , Tom Chaffin, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah (ISBN 0374707006), page 230:
(nautical) To make a social visit on another ship at sea.
* 2008 , Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (ISBN 0393066665), page 436:
* 2011 , Paul Schneider, The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod (ISBN 0805067345), page 255:
* 2014 , James Revell Carr, Hawaiian Music in Motion (ISBN 0252096525), page 181:
(rfv-sense) .
* 1992 , Kenneth Darwin, Familia 1992: Ulster Geneological Review: Number 8 (ISBN 0901905569):
(gaum)
Heed; attention.
* 1862 , C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, Illustrated , page 18:
* 1919 , Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, The Taming of Nan , page 31:
* 1972 , William Mayne, The Incline (ISBN 0525325506), page 141:
(dialectal, obsolete) To understand; comprehend; consider.
* 1893 , Keighley Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds , page 171:
* 1896 , James Keighley Snowden, Web of an Old Weaver'', quoted in ''The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition):
* 1870 , John Christopher Atkinson, Lost'', quoted in ''The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition):
(rfv-sense) (dialectal) To pay attention to; take note of; notice.
(rfv-sense) (dialectal) To fear.
(rfv-sense) (US, and, UK, dialects, Northern England, Appalachia) To handle improperly.
* (rfdate) Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation :
(US, and, UK, dialects, chiefly, South Midlands, Southern US, Appalachia) To smear.
* 1894 , Rowland Evans Robinson, Danvis Folks'', chapter VI, ''The Paring-Bee , page 117:
* Mark Twain, Little Bessie'', published in 1972 in ''Mark Twain's Fables of Man :
* 1930 , Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, Memoirs of a Poor Relation: Being the Story of a Post-war Southern Girl and Her Battle with Destiny , page 293:
* 1990 , Appalachian Journal , volume 18, page 196:
* (seemoreCites)
Grime.
* 1913 , William Gerard Chapman, Wine of the Orchard'', in ''Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel Fiction , volume 61, page 210:
* 1927 , Robert Lindsay Mason'', ''The lure of the Great Smokies , page 150:
* 2000 , Howard Bahr, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War (ISBN 0312265077), page 106:
A bit, a small amount.
* 1939 , Esquire , volume 12, issues 1-3, page 54:
* 1978 , Editorials on File , volume 9, issue 2, page 1392:
* 1990 , Donald Harington, The Cockroaches of Stay More (ISBN 0679728082), page 191:
A useless person.
* 1947 , James Reynolds, A world of horses: A conversation piece , page 229:
* 1956 , Sean O'Casey, I knock at the door. Pictures in the hallway. [etc] , page 133:
* 2011 , Liam O'Flaherty, Land (ISBN 1448203880):
(to make a mess of).
* 2005 , Charles Ray, The Tarheel Connection: An Environmental Romance (ISBN 094461969X), page 93:
* 2011 , Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom (ISBN 1561456497), page 206:
As verbs the difference between gammed and gaumed
is that gammed is (gam) while gaumed is (gaum).gammed
English
Verb
(head)gam
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone.
- The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies – the so-called second wave of feminism – introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams , and beaver.
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Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Upon getting into a "gam " of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others, and succeeded in getting square up to their victim unperceived.
- Breakfast was interrupted as a gam of porpoises surrounded the Argyle , swaying in the foam and singing in gurgles and beeps.
- Christmas day in 1998, we lived on the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California and watched a gam of whales breaching in the deep ultramarine water.
chapter 53:
- But what is a Gam'? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it. ' Gam . NOUN—A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats’ crews, the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.
- There is still that yearning for news from Nantucket that there was when the whale-ships stopped for a gam out in the far-distant Pacific Ocean
- If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner.
- Twice each year, the Russian Navy sent out such ships to provision Russian whalers in the Sea of Okhotsk. In sailing toward the supposed Russian ship, the Abigail ’s captain, Ebenezer Nye, was hoping for a gam with the ship's officers
Verb
- Although most whalemen looked forward to gamming and enjoyed these ocean-borne gatherings, there were at least a few whalemen who either grew weary of them, or just weary of gamming so often with the same ships over and over.
- This was early in the summer of 1820, after nearly a year at sea, and they had gammed the whaling ship Aurora, which had on board not only plenty of letters but some newspapers as well.
- In chapter 2 we saw how gamming whalers sang songs that tied them to their homelands while emphasizing the transient, cosmopolitan nature of their work,
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- At some stage some gam of an official decided that Guihen should be translated to the English name Wynne.
References
*Anagrams
* * * ----gaumed
English
Verb
(head)gaum
English
Etymology 1
The noun is from dialectal (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)- "S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!"
- "Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop."
- "Good-night, Uncle Nat," he called. Uncle Nat walked on in grim silence, never turning his head, for quite half a dozen paces. Then he came back to the gate to which Adam had also returned. "Tak' no gaum o' my gruntlin', Addy," asked Uncle.
- "Take no gaum ," he said. "I've not heard her. This is between thee and me, Tommy. I'll use but one hand."
Derived terms
* gaumish * (l)Verb
(en verb)- "We said nowt on 't. Ther' no 'casion to stir up trouble. But we all gaumed 'at when he heerd t' sounds o' them 'at com to lowse us he'd crawled off into t' workin's an' brayed his head agean a shou'der o' quartz."
- 'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said.
- Aye sir, we gaum ye.
References
* 1856 , Robert Ferguson, The Northmen in Cumberland & Westmoreland : GAWM. Attention.Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Don't be mauming and gauming a Body so.
- No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in;
- Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly produces fifty-two billions of descendants in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter exuding from sores, and gaum themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter
- Butter became in my eyes a gauge of character and gentility, almost of integrity. I watched these ravenous wretches "gaum " their batter-cakes with it, help themselves to more than they really wanted, leaving great golden chunks of it half melted and wholly useless, mixed as it was with gravy
- Simply gaum them all over with thick claybank mud and throw them into the fire. The clay will bake hard.
Derived terms
* (l) * begaumReferences
Etymology 3
.Noun
(-)- "douse your head under the pump and wash some of the gaum off your hands and we'll see what your Aunt Debbie can do for that empty feelin'."
- Said 'Black Bill' Walker, of Walker's Valley, in speaking of the forge: 'I never heerd sech a rackity-rack! Ye'd think the heavens was fallin' down! Them fellers aworkin' thar in the sweat an' gaum reminded me more of the gate to the bad place!'
- They thrust their wedge-shaped faces into the light, then, one by one, tried the air with their delicate paper wings. The air bore them up; they circled lazily over the heads of men, they lit on hands and faces and in the gaum of wounds, they died underfoot.
Etymology 4
.Noun
(-)- When he had let what he deemed was a sufficiency of blood out of the incised vein, he called to Elvira to bring a spoon of "sut" from off the back of the fireplace and a "gaum " of spiderwebs from somewhere or other.
- The Rockwellian palette was what Arkansans would call a "gaum " of sentiment— sentimentality, the cynical would say. His paintings were what these same cynics would probably call "representational,"
- "There aint a gaum of grub to be found nowheres. If rain was syrup, we'd all be gorged, but there aint enough sup to make a housefly floop his snoot."
Etymology 5
Probably a variant of (m) (an Irish English slang term for a foolish person), but possibly related to or influenced by .Noun
(en noun)- I saw standing up out of the grass a murderous length of sharp steel. Some gaum of a farm boy had abandoned this scythe while cutting bundles of sourgrass for cattle-breeding.
- I'm no gaum . I'll work th' delivery in such a wise way that neither of the boyos'll fall into the suspicion they had lost as much as a burnt-out match.
- He's a scrawny gaum of a lad named Tony Regan, the tailor's eldest son.
Etymology 6
Variant of , which see for more.Verb
(en verb)- "She'll get plum bereft 'n worried, even git the all'overs, if n the place's all gaumed up."
- Some gaumed up their whole lives by a-hasteing in this or that thing, taking out their impatience on this or the other body.