different between gawm vs gawn

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gawm (plural gawms)

1. Alternative spelling of gom (foolish person).
   • 1892, The Awkward Squads, in Littell's Living Age, volume 195, page 811:

     "E-y-e-s front ! Och, luk in front av ye, for the love o' marcy, an' don't be bigger gawms than y'are." Again he took up his parade before the squad.

   • 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 10:

     The farmer would accuse his son of idleness; the son would retort that his father was a drunken gawm.

   • 2013, Flann O'Brien, O'Dea's Your Man, in Collected Plays and Teleplays ?ISBN, page 417:

     In twenty-wan years in this box I don't believe I've ever pulled down wan of those signal yokes without half-expecting a pint of stout to come out down below somewhere. And isn't it the right gawm I'd look if it did come.

Etymology 2

Verb

gawm (third-person singular simple present gawms, present participle gawming, simple past and past participle gawmed)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of gum (make sticky, or impair the function of)
   • 1909, Eugene Wood, The Merry Yule-Tide, in The New England Magazine, page 438:

     In just about a month to-morrow morning we'll crunch the candy into the rug at every step, and all we touch will be gawmed up and sticky.

   • 1920, The Monitor, page 13:

     A nation cannot get anywhere if it has things gawmed up.

Etymology 3

Verb

gawm (third-person singular simple present gawms, present participle gawming, simple past and past participle gawmed)

1. (Britain, dialectal) Alternative form of gorm (gawk, gape)
   • 1888, W. R. Credland, A Farm in the Fens, in the Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, volume 14, page 267:

     “Now, yah ha done! and don't be gawming there, yah soft-headed chawbacon. Go hoam to yar mother!”

   • 1897, J. Carmichael, Man and Beast, in the Monthly Packet, page 392:

     ‘There, be off with you! how can I figure with you standin' gawmin' at me there like a stuck pig with an orange in its mouth!’

English

Etymology 1

Corrupted from gallon.

Noun

gawn (plural gawns)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Corrupted from going.

Verb

gawn

1. (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
   • 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:

     I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.

   • 2007, Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings, page 110:

     Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be gawn.”

   • 2014, Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep, page 3:

     “Ah'm gawn to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”

Anagrams

• AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gnaw, gwan, wang

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?n/

Noun

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Verb

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Mutation