Gorming
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Gorming is an adjective meaning present participle and gerund of gorm.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of gorm.
More Meanings
- (chiefly US, dialectal, New England) Clumsy, lumbering, stupid.
Example Sentences
"Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity.
[…] to help satisfy the ravenous appetites of that couple of "great, gorming, greedy lubbers" that he was hiring this year.
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.
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.
Synonyms for gorming
Depending on context, synonyms include gormy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gawming, gormy, gaumless, gawmless, gropey, goony.
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