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- noun Scotland
fool ,simpleton
Etymologies
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Examples
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Was ever a woman so provokit wi 'a ramstam, dotrifeed gomeral o' a man?
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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"I played the gomeral brawly, but in the darkness we blundered ram-stam through the Sassenach lines."
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912
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The same faithful gomeral is to despatch this letter by the express along with those of the wiseacres, so that you may hear Tom Fool in company with Solomon.
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"The gomeral is much obliged," said I. "And was not this prettily done!" he went on.
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"They might so," said Ody, "supposin 'I was great gomeral enough to be mindin' a word they'd say, or the likes of them."
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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"Come doon oot o 'that this meenit, Jock Gordon, ye gomeral!" cried Meg, shaking her fist at the uncouth shape twisting and singing against the sunset sky like one demented.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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Na, he'll juist look if she's pleased like, and gin that gomeral Saunders gied him the rose, he'll no be ill to please eyther!
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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"But to be sure, we shall have the time to speak of these, since your father is so good as to make me for a while your inmate; and the _gomeral_ begs you at this time only for the favour of his liberty."
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The same faithful gomeral is to despatch this letter by the express along with those of the wiseacres, so that you may hear Tom Fool in company with Solomon.
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"The gomeral is much obliged," said I. "And was not this prettily done?" he went on.
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