Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
gaum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. Axle grease. See
gome . - transitive verb Prov. Eng. To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
gaum . - noun
axle grease - verb UK, dialect To
daub with gorm, or with anythingsticky .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And then when he looked up "gorm" in the dictionary, he couldn't find it.
Archive 2005-07-01 Kerron Cross 2005
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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.
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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 Alexander Leslie 1866
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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 2010
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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.
Good luck to Caroline Flack. She'll need it | Barbara Ellen 2011
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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 2009
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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 2009
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Fortunately this moose cannot make anything that vaguely scans out of "gorm-free"
Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends 2009
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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 2009
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Hence, out of respect, "an fear gorm" is used for Blacks.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
blafferty commented on the word gorm
That which you have if you are not gormless.
April 27, 2011
yarb commented on the word gorm
A valuable commodity in "Identify the Wordienik".
April 27, 2011
blafferty commented on the word gorm
I think there are several people who should have used it as their word.
April 27, 2011