different between goam vs glam

English

Etymology

Variant of gorm/gaum, which see for more.

Verb

goam (third-person singular simple present goams, present participle goaming, simple past and past participle goamed)

1. (rare) To see, to recognize, to take notice of.
   • 1866, The United Presbyterian magazine, page 359:

     One of Mr Scott's elders, who came from the west, used to meet Mrs Scott on her way to Jedburgh, when he never goamed her; but when he met her returning in the afternoon he always lifted his hat, and made obeisance.

   • 1884, Charles Stuart, David Blythe: The Gipsy King : a Character Sketch, page 131:

     He never goamed the lassie afterwards, and, in his despair, he began to drink, and drank heavily. He knew his rival by sight, and, knowing the road he would take to reach his home, Scott waylaid and beat him to death on Greenlaw Muir.

   • 1897, Peter Hay Hunter, John Armiger's Revenge, page 21:

     "He never goam'd me," the aggrieved countryman would say with much bitterness.

Related terms

• gorm (“gape, gawk”)
• gaum (“understand; comprehend; consider”)

Anagrams

• AMOG, GOMA, Goma, gamo-, ogam

Scots

Etymology

From the same Middle English word as gaum and gorm (and goam), which see for more.

Verb

goam (third-person singular present goams, present participle goamin, past goamt, past participle goamt)

1. To see; to pay attention to.
   • 1836, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:

     The puir creature paid the most marked attention to the young man, scarcely goaming me; but, for a' that, I could see plainly aneugh that she preferred me in her heart.

English

Etymology

Clipping of glamour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

glam (uncountable)

1. Glamour.
2. (music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.

   Synonym: glitter

Adjective

glam

1. Glamorous.

Verb

glam (third-person singular simple present glams, present participle glamming, simple past and past participle glammed)

1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.
   • 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Midwinter Break', Chapter 10, at p.204:

     He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole.

Usage notes

Usually used in the phrasal verb glam up.

See also

• glitz

Anagrams

• mGal

Spanish

Noun

glam m (plural glams)

1. glam