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gov
English
Alternative forms
- gov.
- (governor): guv
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v/
- Rhymes: -?v
Noun
gov (plural govs)
- (slang, abbreviation, shortened form) Governor.
- (politics, abbreviation, shortened form) Government.
Related terms
- (government): gov't
Anagrams
- vog
Breton
Etymology
From Old Breton gob, from Proto-Celtic *gobanos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ow/
Noun
gov m (plural govien or govion)
- smith
Derived terms
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gom
English
Etymology 1
From Irish gámaí (“booby, dolt”).
Alternative forms
- gawm
Noun
gom (plural goms)
- (Ireland) A foolish person.
- 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack (Dublin : M.H. Gill) p.139:
- “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”
- 1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, Act II, 173:
- Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.
- 2013, Outrageous Pride ?ISBN
- He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]
- 2014, Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy ?ISBN:
- "Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"
- 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack (Dublin : M.H. Gill) p.139:
Etymology 2
Variant of gum.
Noun
gom (plural goms)
- (Appalachia) Alternative form of gum
- 1911, Why moles have hands, in The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:
- ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.
- 1911, Why moles have hands, in The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:
Etymology 3
Minced oath.
Interjection
gom
- (obsolete, euphemistic) God!
- 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:
- There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself,
- 1829, The Humours of Vauxhall, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, volume 2, page 164:
- O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!
- 1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36:
- "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."
- 1908, Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, page 224:
- Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom, no. It wasn't hereabouts."
- 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:
Anagrams
- GMO, O. M. G., O.M.G., OMG, mog, omg
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m/
Noun
gom (uncountable)
- Gum, a viscous or sticky substance exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.
Dutch
Alternative forms
- gum
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m/
- Hyphenation: gom
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)
- gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.
- an object made from gum
- Dated spelling of gum (“eraser”).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: gom
- ? Indonesian: gom
- ? Japanese: ??
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
gom
- first-person singular present indicative of gommen
- imperative of gommen
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English guma.
Noun
gom
- Alternative form of gome (“man”)
Etymology 2
From Old Norse gaumr.
Noun
gom
- Alternative form of gome (“regard”)
Etymology 3
From Anglo-Norman gome.
Noun
gom
- Alternative form of gumme
Rohingya
Verb
gom
- good
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kom ~ *koom (“to grow, to increase”); cognate with Bahnar ak?m/ak?m (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ???? (k?m, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ?????? (c?ngkaom, “bunch”).
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [??m??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [??m??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [??m??]
Verb
gom • (?)
- to gather together
Derived terms
Noun
gom
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Etymology
Borrowed from Irish gámaí.
Noun
gom
- idiot, fool
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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