Gorm

/ɡɔːm/ · verb

Meaning

(UK and US, dialects) To gawk; to stare or gape..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK and US, dialects) To gawk; to stare or gape.
2. Alternative form of gaum (“to smear”).
3. (colloquial, rare) To devour; to wolf down (food).
4. (dialectal, chiefly Southern US, Appalachia, New England, often with ‘up’) To make a mess of.

Example Sentences

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.

"Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.

They would stand in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other, […]

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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gorm.

'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.'

"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!"

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, […]

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• gorms
• gorming
• gormed
• gawm
• gaum

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