Gorming vs Goaming - What's the difference?
gorming | goaming |
Clumsy, lumbering, stupid.
* 1894 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume 73, page 771:
* 1913 , Kate Douglas Wiggin, The story of Waitstill Baxter , page 134:
* 1937 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume 159, page 638:
* 1966 , The Yale Literary Magazine , volume 135, issue 1, page 47:
''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
As verbs the difference between gorming and goaming
is that gorming is while goaming is .As an adjective gorming
is clumsy, lumbering, stupid.gorming
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* gawmingAdjective
- 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.
- to help satisfy the ravenous appetites of that couple of "great, gorming , greedy lubbers" that he was hiring this year.
- "Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity.
- 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
* gormyReferences
(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