Goom vs Gorm - What's the difference?
goom | gorm |
(rfv-sense) (now, chiefly, dialectal) A man.
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(rfv-sense) (obsolete) lord; Lord; God.
(rfv-sense) Heed; attention; notice; care.
* 1738 November 24, Richard Kay, Diary'':
* 1833 , Asa Greene, The Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth , volume 2, page 5:
* 1898 , The Outlook , page 69:
* 1907 , William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases :
* 1949 , Cleone N. Collins, in an article published in Tic , the journal of the Ticonium Company:
* 1973 , Northwest dentistry , volume 52, page 94:
(rfv-sense) Blunted teeth on a saw.
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* 1984 , The Huntington Library quarterly , volume 47, page 144:
Alcohol methylated spirits.
* 1988 , Ruby Langford, ?Susan Hampton, Don't Take Your Love to Town , page 106:
To gawk; to stare or gape.
* 1922 , Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton , page 110:
* 1901 , New Outlook , volume 67, page 408:
* 1990 , Jean Ure, Play Nimrod for him (ISBN 0370311841), page 96:
* 2005 , Lynne Truss, The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels (ISBN 1101218266):
(to smear).
* 1884 , Margaret Elizabeth Majendie, Out of their element , page 70:
* 1909 , Augusta Kortrecht, The Widow Mary'', in ''Good Housekeeping , volume 48, page 182:
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To devour; to wolf down (food).
* 1885 James Johonnot, Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin , page 105:
* 1920 , Outdoor Recreation: The Magazine that Brings the Outdoors In :
* 1980 , Michael G. Karni, Finnish Americana , page 5:
To make a mess of.
* 1910 , English Mechanic and World of Science , volume 91, page 273:
* 2008 , Christine Blevins, Midwife of the Blue Ridge (ISBN 0425221687), page 133:
(rfv-sense) Axle grease.
As a noun goom
is (now|chiefly|dialectal) a man or goom can be heed; attention; notice; care or goom can be or goom can be alcohol methylated spirits.As a proper noun gorm is
.goom
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) goom, gome, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* gome, gomNoun
(en noun)- The king was glade of that golde, that the gome brought, And promised him full pertly, his part for to take, [...]
citation, passage=… at it would be quite as inconvenient to explain that the termination _goom _ was a derivation from the Anglo-Saxon _guma_ as that it was a corruption of it; … }}
citation, genre= , publisher=Oxford University Press , isbn=9780191622830 , page= , passage=Similarly bridegroom'' was originally ''bridegoom'', where ''goom'' meant 'man'.'' … It was changed to ''groom'', though a ''bridegroom does not normally groom the bride. }}
citation, archiveorg= , accessdate= , passage=Groom'' for ''bridegroom'' has been called inelegant, but it’s surely an improvement on ''goom . }}
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) gome, gome, from (etyl) gaumr, . More at (l).Noun
(-)Etymology 3
A dialectal variant of (m).Noun
(en noun)- November 24. This Day I've spent some Time in my Closet, have been but ill to Day of Tumour in my Goom which is this Afternoon burst.
- "I'm cutting the goom ," replied the student.
- "You've got the wrong tooth," roared the man.
- Oh, just put a little hunk on the ‘ goom ’ over the tooth. I s'pose it kind o' stim-a-lates it."
- Soon in the goom [gum], quick in the womb.
- "And Doc will you take a look at my ‘goom ’? I want my plates tight, so they won't drop or bob. Say Doc, will I be able to eat corn on the cob?"
- Why didn't you just pull it? My goom still has a sore where you put that needle.
citation, genre= , publisher=J. Loder for R. Hunter , isbn= , page=522 , passage=The portion so blunted is called the goom'''''. When the teeth are so worn down by use , as to be almost as low as those broken off, the saw requires '''''gooming . }}
- Goom. In a blacksmith's bill just brought to me is this item. "A saw goom'd—6d." On enquiry he said that "the goom'' had ''riz'', and ta wanted ''goomin ."
Etymology 4
Noun
(-)- I rushed to see what was wrong and I could smell metho on his breath. 'Robbie, who gave you the goom ?'
- * 1993 , Mudrooroo, The aboriginal protestors confront the declaration of the Australian Republic'', in ''The Mudrooroo/Müller Project: A Theatrical Casebook (ISBN 0868402370), page 107
- THE BUREAUCRAT I didn't touch him; I didn't touch him. The goom's got him.
- BOB He doesn't drink, mate. His system's not up to it.
- * 2000 , Herb Wharton, Unbranded (ISBN 0702244678)
- "No, don't bother, it's only a bottle of goom ."
- * 2007 , James Maxey, Bitterwood (ISBN 184416487X), page 181:
- He popped the cork to unleash the powerful, musk- sharp stench of goom', a powerful alcohol distilled from wild swamp cabbage and seasoned with cayenne. The ' goom spilled all over his torso. The burning sensation wasn't unpleasant.
- * 2009 , Chloe Hooper, Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee (ISBN 1416594590), page 200:
- Zillman: "And he also had some goom , didn't he?"
- Kidner: "Yeah, methylated spirits."
References
* ----gorm
English
Etymology 1
A variant of (m) (from (etyl); compare (etyl) ), with the ‘r’ being a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English. See (m) for more.Alternative forms
* gawm (UK dialects)Verb
(en verb)- Passing through St. George's Square, Lupus Street, Chichester Street, he scarcely saw a soul; then, quite suddenly, he struck a dense crowd, kept back by the police, standing gorming at a great jagged hole in a high blank wall, a glimpse, the merest glimpse of more broken walls, shattered chimneys.
- "Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.
- They would stand in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other,
- In particular, we like to emphasize that, far from wasting our childhoods (not to mention adulthoods) mindlessly gorming at The Virginian'' and ''The Avengers , we spent those couch-potato years in rigorous preparation for our chosen career.
Etymology 2
A variant of (m) (itself likely a variant of (m)), with the ‘r’ being a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.Verb
(en verb)- 'It is quite ruined.'
- 'How did she do it? What a pity!'
- 'With paint—assisting in the painting of a garden-gate. She told me the pleasure of "gorming " it on was too irresistible to be resisted; and the poor little new gown in done for.'
- "It was in a little sprinkler bottle, an' I gormed it onto my vittles good an' thick. Lordy, Lordy, an' now I got to die!"
References
* Bennett Wood Green, Word-book of Virginia Folk-speech (1912), page 202: *: Gorm, v. To smear, as with anything sticky. When a child has smeared its face with something soft and sticky, they say: "Look how you have gormed your face."Etymology 3
From gormandize''/''gormandise .Verb
(en verb)- The bear came up to the berries and stopped. Not accustomed to eat out of a pail, he tipped it over, and nosed about the fruit "gorming " it down, mixed with leaves and dirt,
- an itinerant bruin and with naught on his hands but time and an appetite, [to] wander from ravine to ravine and gorm down this delectable fruit.
- As Luohi said later, "He gormed' it. Nay, he didn't eat it. He ' gormed it, the pig."
Etymology 4
Supposed by some to be related to (m) and/or (m), and by others to be related to ).Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech (1993, ISBN 0813129583)Alternative forms
* gaumVerb
(en verb)- I find the cheap shilling self-filling pen advertised in these pages excellent value—quite equal to that of fountain-pens I have paid ten times as much for. It is also durable. I am a careless person, and prefer to discard it when I have “gormed ” it
- "Truth is, I've gormed it all up, Alistair. When it comes t' women — nice women anyway — I'm as caw-handed and cork-brained as any pimply boy."