What does gorming mean?
Gorming means (chiefly US, dialectal, New England) Clumsy, lumbering, stupid..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(chiefly US, dialectal, New England) Clumsy, lumbering, stupid..
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.
[…] to help satisfy the ravenous appetites of that couple of "great, gorming, greedy lubbers" that he was hiring this year.
"Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity.
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.
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Gorming means (chiefly US, dialectal, New England) Clumsy, lumbering, stupid..
Common synonyms include gormy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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