orming

comparative more orming · superlative most orming

1. Talk and awkward

   Niver a baby had eyes, As sulking and ormin' as thine D.H. Lawrence (1903), Love Poems

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   Mrs. Goodall fairly hated the sound of correct English. She thee'd and tha'd her prospective daughter-in-law, and said, 'I'm none as orming as I look, seest ta.' Fanny did not think her prospective mother-in-law looked at all orming. England My England 261 (1922)

   There are many adjectives in the Selston dialect which are lexically interesting, like "throng" [θrɔŋ] (busy) are well known in northern dialects; others, for instance "ormin" [ɔːmɪn] (large and ungainly) are not recorded in EDD as used outside Nottinghamshire. Jeremy G. Storr (1977), Survey of the Dialect of Selston in the Erewash Valley, page 255.