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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Upper Southern U.S. Variant of gaum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as gaum.
Wiktionary
- n. axle grease
- v. UK, dialect To daub with gorm, or with anything sticky.
- n. Alternative form of gaum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. Axle grease. See gome.
- v. Prov. Eng. To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky.
Etymologies
- The ‘r’ found in this spelling is a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And then when he looked up "gorm" in the dictionary, he couldn't find it.”
“He loves _ghi_ (or clarified butter) and animal fat, which he swallows in large gulps when he can get it, also rubbing it in his frizzy hair and using it to sleek his black, spindly shanks and smear his spear-blades -- on shikar he will "gorm" it all over your spare gun if you do not watch him.”
“Lapland and on Novaya Zemlya, by "gorm" (inch-long larvæ of a fly, which are developed under the animal's skin).”
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
“Personally, I am extremely concerned about this coupling, but only because I can't imagine how any 32-year-old woman with a working brain could tolerate the irritation and the general lack of gorm of an average 17-18 year old.”
The Guardian: Good luck to Caroline Flack. She'll need it | Barbara Ellen
“Any day now I expect to hear a defense of the Holocaust deniers from our brainless little gorm, barry.”
Optimism Watch: Instapundit/Israel/Obama edition. | RedState
“Fortunately this moose cannot make anything that vaguely scans out of "gorm-free”
Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends
“Cadbury Moose @ #27: Fortunately this moose cannot make anything that vaguely scans out of "gorm-free" and the "Born Free" tune.”
Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends
“She's clearly personifying one of the least powerful figures in our collective mythos, a character so gorm-free that she couldn't recognize a wolf in a nightdress.”
Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends
“Hence, out of respect, "an fear gorm" is used for Blacks.”
“It rat spize fur finl gorm…gum..grmt…umm tezty fud masturpeeze!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gorm’.
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Words without the letter E
chord, slur, anabaptist, anabolic, diabolic, turbid, torpid, somniloquist, trump, bipolar, dioxin, hydrocarbon and 107 more...
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Fictional Irish Towns
better look them up beforehand, though--most everything in Ireland sounds fictional.
terwillicky, boblin, wommacky, gorm, killoonagh, birnet, puckle, whelvety, christmas aoimh, minnamogie, spackish, leprechaunia and 76 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
Tweets
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blafferty I think there are several people who should have used it as their word. Apr 27, 2011
yarb A valuable commodity in "Identify the Wordienik". Apr 27, 2011
blafferty That which you have if you are not gormless. Apr 27, 2011