Gormy vs Wormy - What's the difference?
gormy | wormy |
Clumsy, awkward, ungainly, klutzy.
* 1990 , John Gould, There Goes Maine! (ISBN 0393245691), page 1187:
* 1990 , Maurice Shadbolt, Monday's Warriors: A Novel (ISBN 0879239158), page 5:
* 2009 , Stephen King, Under the Dome: A Novel (ISBN 1439148503), page 682:
* 2010 , Pat Cunningham, A London Werewolf in America (ISBN 1606017713), page 32:
* (seeCites)
* 1914 , Edward Henry Peple, The prince chap, a comedy in three acts (1992 reprint ISBN: 5877390015), page 50:
* 1916 , Clarke Abigail, Edward Everett Hale at Harvard College'', part IV, in ''The Unitarian Register , volume 95, page 583:
Of or like a worm or worms.
Infested with worms.
As adjectives the difference between gormy and wormy
is that gormy is clumsy, awkward, ungainly, klutzy while wormy is of or like a worm or worms.gormy
English
Etymology 1
Related to the largely synonymous word (m).Adjective
(-)- And not always with finesse — the Lombard clanked and churned, and a man who is like a regular Lombard may be a bit gormy and sometimes apply brute strength when he might do the work easier if he'd stop and think a little.
- Kimball was never one to argue with a comrade's eyes and ears, not even those of a gormy jeezer like Connolly.
- The Killian boy was carrying a chair, and making difficulties with it; he was what old-time Yankees would have called “a gormy lad.”
- Just the sort of place gormy Eugene would pick to hold a family get-together.
Synonyms
* gormingReferences
* John Gould, ?Lillian Ross, Maine lingo: boiled owls, billdads & wazzats (1975), page 114 * Sidney Oldall Addy, A Supplement to the Sheffield Glossary , volume 22, issue 2 (1891), page 24Etymology 2
From (m)/ (see those entries for more).Adjective
(-)- The first thing you have got to do is to wash them gormy 'ands
- "When I bought my tamarinds I eat one or two and then discovered that I had left my handkerchief at home, my hands were a little gormy , so I washed them in Frog Pond."
