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gorming en · ADJ · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (New-England, US, dialectal) Clumsy, lumbering, stupid.
   • […] to help satisfy the ravenous appetites of that couple of "great, gorming, greedy lubbers" that he was hiring this year. 1913, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The story of Waitstill Baxter, page 134:
   • A streak of lack, no get-up-and-go, always late in the tide, not sprawl enough to dig his potatoes, no faculty at all, a gump, a gawk, a gowk, a goop, a great gorming lummox. How the townsmen poured it on! But he wasn't like that, I swear. 1966, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 135, number 1, page 47:
   • "Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity. 1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 159, page 638:
   • He was a giant fellow, -— a "great gorming cutter,” Samantha Ann Millikeu called him; but if he had held up his head and straightened his broad shoulders, he would have been thought a man of splendid presence. 1894, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 73, page 771:

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gormy

gorming en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of gorm
   form of gorm