gorm

gorm [gawrm] Examples verb (used with object) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. gaum.

gaum or gorm [gawm, gahm] verb (used with object) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up): My clothes were gaumed up from that axle grease.

Origin of gaum 1790–1800; also British dial.; of uncertain origin Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for gorm Historical Examples of gorm

“Take these traitors over to the Gorm and let me look at their faces,” he ordered.

Pirates of the Gorm

Nat Schachner

I’ll tell you what, Mr. Gorm, you’ll find that something will come of it.

Orley Farm

Anthony Trollope

Apparently he also encouraged them to seek compensation in Gorm’s kingdom.

Canute the Great

Laurence Marcellus Larson

This compact was made between them, and she was betrothed to Gorm.

The Danish History, Books I-IX

Saxo Grammaticus (“Saxo the Learned”)

Just for a moment we doubted if that was safe for her, but Gorm the Steward had the last word.

A Sea Queen’s Sailing

Charles Whistler

British Dictionary definitions for gorm gorm noun

1. Northern English dialect a foolish person

Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for gorm n.

“fool,” 1912, perhaps from gormless.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper