Gorm vs Gom - What's the difference?
gorm | gom |
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:
* (seeCites)
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.
(Ireland) A foolish person.
* 1926 , , (The Plough and the Stars) , Act II, 173:
* 2007 , John Maher, The Luck Penny , page 145:
* 2013 , Outrageous Pride (ISBN 1626229058)
* 2014 , Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy (ISBN 160980502X):
(Appalachian)
* 1911 , Why moles have hands'', in ''The Wit and Humor of America , edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:
God!
* 1804 , an entry in the Theatrical Journal'' of ''The European Magazine: And London Review , volume 45, page 373:
* 1829 , The Humours of Vauxhall'', in ''The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth , volume 2, page 164:
* 1861 , The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer , volumes 9-10, page 36:
* 1908 , Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools , page 224:
As a proper noun gorm
is .As a noun gom is
eraser.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."
References
* Maine lingo: boiled owls, billdads & wazzats (1975), page 114: "A man who bungles a job has gormed it. Anybody who stumbles over his own feet is gormy." * Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech (1993, ISBN 0813129583): "gorm : [v. to make a mess.] If a house be in disorder it is said to be all gormed or gaumed up (B 368)."Etymology 5
Noun
Quotations
* (English Citations of "gorm")References
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* gawmNoun
(en noun)- Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom .
- And that's the why I made up my mind to go out to Willie Hill's. To stand my ground in front of that little minx. Because I felt, to tell the God's truth, that little Lorna Lovegrove, out in Willie Hill's, was making a right gom out of me.
- He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed
- "Yeah! She's a right gom ! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"
Etymology 2
Variant of (m).Noun
(en noun)- ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.
Etymology 3
Minced oath.Interjection
(en interjection)- There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom ! I respect him as much as myself,
- O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom ! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!
- "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom , sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."
- Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom , no. It wasn't hereabouts."