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Germing vs Gorming - What's the difference?

germing | gorming |

As verbs the difference between germing and gorming

is that germing is while gorming is .

As an adjective gorming is

clumsy, lumbering, stupid.

germing

English

Verb

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    • gorming

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * gawming

    Adjective

  • Clumsy, lumbering, stupid.
  • * 1894 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume 73, page 771:
    • He was a giant fellow, -— a "great gorming cutter,” Samantha Ann Millikeu called him; but if he had held up his head and straightened his broad shoulders, he would have been thought a man of splendid presence.
  • * 1913 , Kate Douglas Wiggin, The story of Waitstill Baxter , page 134:
    • to help satisfy the ravenous appetites of that couple of "great, gorming , greedy lubbers" that he was hiring this year.
  • * 1937 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume 159, page 638:
    • "Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity.
  • * 1966 , The Yale Literary Magazine , volume 135, issue 1, page 47:
    • A streak of lack, no get-up-and-go, always late in the tide, not sprawl enough to dig his potatoes, no faculty at all, a gump, a gawk, a gowk, a goop, a great gorming lummox. How the townsmen poured it on! But he wasn't like that, I swear.
    Synonyms
    * gormy

    References

    (References) * Sylvester Clark Gould, Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine (1892): In an old note-book of my own, kept in 1851, I find the entry, “gorming,” gawky, or awkward. Amesbury, Mass. Some twenty years ago I heard it from a man mending a road near Bethlehem, N. H., * Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms'' (2000, ISBN 1438129920), page 232: ''gorming Used to describe a stupid, clumsy person or animal, or even an inanimate object that is in one's way. “Move aside, you great gorming lummox.” * Dan L. Soucy, ?Jeanne Mason, Salt and Pines: Tales from Bygone Maine'' (2011, ISBN 1609493680), page 60:
    ''from away''—not from Maine.

    ''gorming''/''gormy''/''gawmy     —awkward, clumsy, all hands and feet. “He's a gorming young one, and he'll grow up to be a ronching great man.” * H. L. Mencken, American Language Supplement 2'' (2012, ISBN 0307813444): ''gorming , clumsy, stupid

    Etymology 2

    Verb

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