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/ˈɡɔːmi/ · adjective
(British, chiefly Northern England, US, chiefly New England) Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly..
And not always with finesse — the Lombard clanked and churned, and a man who is like a regular Lombard may be a bit gormy and sometimes apply brute strength when he might do the work easier if he'd stop and think a little.
Kimball was never one to argue with a comrade's eyes and ears, not even those of a gormy jeezer like Connolly.
The Killian boy was carrying a chair, and making difficulties with it; he was what old-time Yankees would have called "a gormy lad."
Just the sort of place gormy Eugene would pick to hold a family get-together.
The first thing you have got to do is to wash them gormy 'ands [...]
When I bought my tamarinds I eat one or two and then discovered that I had left my handkerchief at home, my hands were a little gormy, so I washed them in Frog Pond.
Use gormy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gormy means (British, chiefly Northern England, US, chiefly New England) Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly..
Common synonyms include gorming.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And not always with finesse — the Lombard clanked and churned, and a man who is like a regular Lombard may be a bit gormy and sometimes apply brute strength when he might do the work easier if he'd stop and think a little.
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