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gawming en · ADJ · etymology 1
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(UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, qualifier:but also US) Alternative form of gorming.
A sniff of strong ammonia could not have revived Martha's drooping spirits more effectually. “Miss him!” she repeated, “don't worry about my missin' that gawming creature. I shall be able to keep things decently clean after he's out o' the way.”
1893, Mrs. O. W. Scott, The Gilead Guards: A Story of War-times in a New England Town:Yet Nancy's gawming son
Set free more sad and hopeless men
Than any king has done;
1916, Daniel Leavens Cady, Adam Et Ux, in Maize and Milkweed: Fifty-two Stalks
gawming en · VERB · etymology 2
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of gawm