Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A flux.

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Examples

  • And, I give my neologism that's pretentious for gism to you:

    BNYSC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • My friends think I'm being paranoid, but watch for the developing silly gism of: Katrina is to California just as Iraq is to Iran.

    Kate Clinton: Pre-Collision Intelligence 2008

  • Maddie was a thoroughbred mare, brought forth into the world by some gism from Secretariat and a mother with impeccable lines.

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  • Then Brookie married Andre Aggrevatingly Boring Agassiz (the only star besides this Michelle Wie (pure-dee sex promotion in her sweet case) to ever be lauded as a great champion before they could ever win a major tournement in their sports)--I suppose Andre screwed Miss Shields, but I guess the gism in his "risen" wasn't shooting enough willing-to-struggle little dudes to win her hot-item egg.

    I Was Going to Write About War, but.... The Daily Growler 2006

  • The one thing everything shies away from: whatever the etymology of jazz, it's almost certainly the same as the etymology of gism with all the four-letter words in dictionaries, why is this one usually absent?

    languagehat.com: WORDS OF THE YEAR. 2004

  • Had he stated his syllo - gism correctly, the conclusion would be that there is noth - ing left to be doctored.

    Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865

  • Att the same time, whig = gism, I must tell you under the rose, hath no abundance of patrons among us.

    Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, 1717 August 3 1717

  • The churches were taxed until LBJ struck a deal with them, basically: "We will let you go tax-free as long as you keep your gism encrusted fingers out of the political pie."

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ladylove 2010

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