gorming

alternative gawming

1. New EnglandUSdialectalClumsy, lumbering, stupid.

   "Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity.

   1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 159, page 638

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   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.

   1894, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 73, page 771

   […] to help satisfy the ravenous appetites of that couple of "great, gorming, greedy lubbers" that he was hiring this year.

   1913, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The story of Waitstill Baxter, page 134

   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.

   1966, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 135, number 1, page 47

   Synonyms: gormy

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gorm