gormed

It appeared, in answer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of the etymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that they all regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.

David Copperfield 2007

He gestured skyward, to where the formerly magnificent frescoes that adorned the high, vaulted ceiling now looked down on the assembly out of gray-gormed eyes that seemed to weep silently for their lost splendor.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

We ran before our gormers, they gormed by us while we plucked, we ran by, plucked again, and again were gormingly overtaken and overtook.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

De way de sorrel wuz gormed up wid sweat an 'mire sut'n'y did hu't me.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

You tip this ol 'bufflehead into watter,' you said, 'an' gormed if I don't give 'ee

Love Among the Chickens 1928

You tip this ol 'bufflehead into sea,' you said, 'an' gormed if I don't give

Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm Armand [Illustrator] Both 1928

It appeared, in answer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of the etymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that they all regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

It appeared, in answer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of the etymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that they all regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.

III. I Have a Change 1917

The children mussed and gormed themselves, their dishes, the tablecloth.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

The children mussed and gormed themselves, their dishes, the tablecloth.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889