gom

plural goms · alternative gaum · alternative gawm

1. IrelandA foolish person.

   Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.

   1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, act II, page 137

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   “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”

   1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack, Dublin: M.H. Gill, page 139

   And that's the why I made up my mind to go out to Willie Hill's. To stand my ground in front of that little minx. Because I felt, to tell the God's truth, that little Lorna Lovegrove, out in Willie Hill's, was making a right gom out of me.

   2007, John Maher, The Luck Penny, page 145

   He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]

   2013, Outrageous Pride, →ISBN

   "Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"

   2014, Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy, →ISBN

plural goms

1. AppalachiaalternativeAlternative form of gum.

   ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.

   1911, “Why moles have hands”, in Marshall Pinckney Wilder, editor, The Wit and Humor of America, page 206

1. euphemisticobsoleteGod!

   Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom, no. It wasn't hereabouts."

   1908, Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, page 224

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   There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself,

   1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373

   O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!

   1829, “The Humours of Vauxhall”, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, volume 2, page 164

   "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."

   1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36