Definitions For Gorming

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

gawming {{qualifier, chiefly UK, but also used in the US}}

Adjective

{{en-adj, ?}} (chiefly, US, dialectal, New England) clumsy, clumsy, lumbering, stupid.

Synonyms

gormy

References

{{rel-top, 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.
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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 {{rel-bottom}}

Etymology 2

Verb

{{present participle of, en, gorm, nocat=1}}