Definitions For Gormy

Etymology 1

Related to the largely synonymous word gorming.

Adjective

(not comparable) (US, and, UK, dialects, chiefly, Northern England, and, New England) clumsy, clumsy, awkward, ungainly, klutzy.

Synonyms

gorming

References

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 24

Etymology 2

From gorm/gaum, , smear (see those entries for more).

Adjective

(not comparable) (US, and, UK, dialects, chiefly, Southern US) Alternate form of gaumy, nodot=1 (sticky, smeared with something sticky; grimy)

References

Mildred Jordan Brooks, Southern stuff: down-home talk and bodacious lore {{ISBN, 0380764911}}, page 59: gormy, adj. Sticky or smeary. "Who wants to pick up a youngun all gormy with butter and molasses, 'lasses?" Bennett Wood Green, Word-book of Virginia Folk-speech (1912), page 202: Gormy, adj. Smeary; sticky.

Is Gormy a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
12

The word Gormy is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

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