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gork
English
Etymology
1970–75; perhaps back-formation from gorked (slang), meaning "anesthetized"; apparently an expressive coinage.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /????k/
- (UK) IPA(key): /???k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Noun
gork (plural gorks)
- (medicine, slang, offensive) A terminal patient whose brain is nonfunctional and the rest of whose body can be kept functioning only by the extensive use of mechanical devices and nutrient solutions.
- (medicine, slang, offensive) A stuporous or imbecilic patient; a patient who has lost brain function.
- (slang) A despised person; dork, geek, jerk.
Verb
gork (third-person singular simple present gorks, present participle gorking, simple past and past participle gorked)
- (medicine, slang) To sedate a patient heavily.
Related terms
- gorked
Anagrams
- grok
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gorm
English
Etymology 1
A variant of gaum (from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaumr; compare Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gaumjan, “observe”)), with the ‘r’ being a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English. See gaum for more.
Alternative forms
- gawm (UK dialects)
Verb
gorm (third-person singular simple present gorms, present participle gorming, simple past and past participle gormed)
- (Britain and US, dialects) To gawk; to stare or gape.
- 1922, Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton, page 110:
- Passing through St. George's Square, Lupus Street, Chichester Street, he scarcely saw a soul; then, quite suddenly, he struck a dense crowd, kept back by the police, standing gorming at a great jagged hole in a high blank wall, a glimpse, the merest glimpse of more broken walls, shattered chimneys.
- 1901, New Outlook, volume 67, page 408:
- "Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.
- 2005, Lynne Truss, The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels ?ISBN:
- In particular, we like to emphasize that, far from wasting our childhoods (not to mention adulthoods) mindlessly gorming at The Virginian and The Avengers, we spent those couch-potato years in rigorous preparation for our chosen career.
- 1922, Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton, page 110:
Related terms
- goam (“see, recognize, take notice of”)
- gaum (“understand; comprehend; consider”)
Etymology 2
A variant of gaum (itself likely a variant of gum), with the ‘r’ being a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.
Verb
gorm (third-person singular simple present gorms, present participle gorming, simple past and past participle gormed)
- Alternative form of gaum (to smear).
- 1884, Margaret Elizabeth Majendie, Out of their element, page 70:
- 'It is quite ruined.'
- 'How did she do it? What a pity!'
- 'With paint—assisting in the painting of a garden-gate. She told me the pleasure of "gorming" it on was too irresistible to be resisted; and the poor little new gown in done for.'
- 1909, Augusta Kortrecht, The Widow Mary, in Good Housekeeping, volume 48, page 182:
- "It was in a little sprinkler bottle, an' I gormed it onto my vittles good an' thick. Lordy, Lordy, an' now I got to die!"
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:gorm.
- 1884, Margaret Elizabeth Majendie, Out of their element, page 70:
References
- Bennett Wood Green, Word-book of Virginia Folk-speech (1912), page 202:
- Gorm, v. To smear, as with anything sticky. When a child has smeared its face with something soft and sticky, they say: "Look how you have gormed your face."
Etymology 3
From gormandize/gormandise.
Verb
gorm (third-person singular simple present gorms, present participle gorming, simple past and past participle gormed)
- (colloquial, rare) To devour; to wolf down (food).
- 1885 James Johonnot, Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin, page 105:
- The bear came up to the berries and stopped. Not accustomed to eat out of a pail, he tipped it over, and nosed about the fruit "gorming" it down, mixed with leaves and dirt, […]
- 1920, Outdoor Recreation: The Magazine that Brings the Outdoors In:
- […] an itinerant bruin and with naught on his hands but time and an appetite, [to] wander from ravine to ravine and gorm down this delectable fruit.
- 1980, Michael G. Karni, Finnish Americana, page 5:
- As Luohi said later, "He gormed it. Nay, he didn't eat it. He gormed it, the pig."
- 1885 James Johonnot, Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin, page 105:
Etymology 4
Supposed by some to be related to gormless and/or gorming, and by others to be related to gorm (“smear”) (itself probably related to gum (“make sticky; impair the functioning of”)).
Alternative forms
- gaum
Verb
gorm (third-person singular simple present gorms, present participle gorming, simple past and past participle gormed)
- (dialectal, chiefly Southern US, Appalachia, New England, often with ‘up’) To make a mess of.
- 1910, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 91, page 273:
- I find the cheap shilling self-filling pen advertised in these pages excellent value—quite equal to that of fountain-pens I have paid ten times as much for. It is also durable. I am a careless person, and prefer to discard it when I have “gormed” it […]
- 1910, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 91, page 273:
References
- Maine lingo: boiled owls, billdads & wazzats (1975), page 114: "A man who bungles a job has gormed it. Anybody who stumbles over his own feet is gormy."
- Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech (1993, ?ISBN: "gorm: [v. to make a mess.] If a house be in disorder it is said to be all gormed or gaumed up (B 368)."
Anagrams
- grom
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *gurm, from Proto-Celtic *gurmos, cognate with Welsh gwrm (“brown, dark”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??rm/
Adjective
gorm
- dark brown
Related terms
- gell (“light brown”)
Mutation
See also
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish gorm (“blue”), from Proto-Celtic *gurmos. Cognate with Welsh gwrm (“dusky”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??????m?/
Adjective
gorm (genitive singular masculine goirm, genitive singular feminine goirme, plural gorma, comparative goirme)
- blue
- (of people, skin) black
- (heraldry) azure
Declension
- Obsolete spellings
Derived terms
Mutation
See also
References
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “gorm”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish gorm (“blue”), from Proto-Celtic *gurmos. Same root as Welsh gwrm (“dusky”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?r??m/
Adjective
gorm (comparative guirme)
- blue
- Of blue-green to verdant colour, when applied to plants.
Derived terms
Related terms
- gar
Mutation
See also
References
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “gorm”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
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