Definitions For Gorm

Adjective

blue Of blue-green to verdant colour, when applied to plants.

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Etymology 1

A variant of gaum (from Middle English gome, from ; compare ), with the ‘r’ being a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English. See gaum for more.

Alternative forms

gawm

Verb

(UK, and, US, dialects) To gawk; to stare or gape.

Related terms

goam, gloss=see, recognize, take notice of gaum, gloss=understand; comprehend; consider

Etymology 2

A variant of gaum (itself likely a variant of gum), with the ‘r’ being a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.

Verb

Alternate form of gaum, nodot=1 (to smear).

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

(colloquial, rare) To devour; to wolf down (food).

Etymology 4

Supposed by some to be related to gormless and/or gorming, and by others to be related to gorm, , smear (itself probably related to gum, , make sticky; impair the functioning of).Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech (1993,

Alternative forms

gaum

Verb

(dialectal, chiefly, Southern US, Appalachia, New England, often with ‘up’) To make a mess of.

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, : "gorm: [v. to make a mess.] If a house be in disorder it is said to be all gormed or gaumed up (B 368)."

Anagrams

grom

Etymology

From , from . Same root as .

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