gormy

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔːmi/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɹmi/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mi === Etymology 1 === Either: from gorm (“fool; one who is undiscerning”) +‎ -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’); or a variant of gaumy (“awkward”), from gaum (“to stare idly or vacantly; to gape, gaze; to be awkward or stupid; a lout; a gaping, idle fellow”) + -y. ==== Adjective ==== gormy (not comparable) (British, chiefly Northern England, US, chiefly New England) Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly. Synonym: gorming ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From gorm, gaum (“to smear; grime (noun)”) +‎ -y. ==== Adjective ==== gormy (not comparable) (British, US, chiefly Southern US) Alternative spelling of gaumy (“sticky, smeared with something sticky; grimy”). === References === === Further reading === “gaumy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. Sidney Oldall Addy (1891), A Supplement to the Sheffield Glossary (Series C (Original Glossaries); no. 62), volume 22, number 2, London: […] [F]or the English Dialect Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 24. John Gould; Lillian Ross (1975), Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads & Wazzats, Camden, Me.: Down East Books, →ISBN, page 114. Mildred Jordan Brooks (1992), Southern Stuff: Down-home Talk and Bodacious Lore, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 59: “gormy, adj. Sticky or smeary. “Who wants to pick up a youngun all gormy with butter and ’lasses?””