gomeral

== English == === Alternative forms === gomerel, gomeril === Etymology === Diminutive (by way of -rel) of Middle English gōme (“man, warrior, husband, male servant”), Old English guma (“male, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“man, person”). More at groom. === Noun === gomeral (plural gomerals) (chiefly Scotland, now rare) Fool, simpleton. 1875, The Story of Valentine, and his Brother, chapter XXXIX, in The Living Age, volume 124, page 563: "But, you gomeral, you belong to my class, and not to your own!" said the old lord, feeling, with a mixture of pain and amusement and impatience, his own ignorance before the superior and melancholy knowledge of life possessed by this boy. === Anagrams === glomera